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January 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Banking and trading clients of Toronto's RBC Royal Bank can now take advantage of six new online calculators to help them better invest...

January 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Representative Gene Green (D-Texas) has renewed his reform efforts on corporate-owned life insurance (COLI).

January 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has upheld a decision by the administrator of an employer severance plan for turning down benefits to a fired...

January 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Taxpayers would be allowed to roll over money into a spouse's retirement savings account in another qualified plan or an IRA under a...

January 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new bill now before Congress would allow a minimum credit against the alternative minimum tax when stock from an incentive stock option...

January 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - HR officials who find out that an employee's social security number isn't correctly recorded on a W-2 form can withhold tax from the...

January 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Come Monday plan sponsors - and participants - will have some new retirement plan options to consider, and perhaps a few less to...

July 1, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court will decide whether a suit by victims of a July 2003 shooting rampage at a Meridian, Mississippi Lockheed Martin...

July 1, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Most US workers are at least somewhat satisfied with their pay and benefits, but many employers still fall down in another important area...

July 1, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A recent Accountemps study reports that 33% of executives say their employees are least productive between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m.

July 1, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The ex-wife of a pension plan participant can't pursue a lawsuit over whether she is still due benefits, because the participant had already...

January 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Hartford Financial Services Group is now offering a program that helps employers to administer and track employee absences associated with the Family...

July 1, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - According to a new survey of 257 retiree plan sponsors with at least 500 employees conducted this month by Mercer Human Resource Consulting,...

January 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - DaimlerChrysler Corporation's 4,400 US Chrysler Group dealers can now arrange their 401(k) plan through Merrill Lynch.

July 1, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling that a Cottage Grove, Minnesota specialty plastics manufacturer improperly denied health coverage to...

January 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - DaimlerChrysler Corporation's 4,400 US Chrysler Group dealers can now arrange their 401(k) plan through Merrill Lynch.

January 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A US Bankruptcy Court judge in Chicago overseeing United Airlines' business reorganization tossed out the carrier's new contract with its pilots - in...

June 30, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of 3M employees have lost another legal battle in their nine-year fight over whether the company breached its fiduciary duties by...

June 30, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-Arkansas) has introduced the Employee Stock Ownership Plan Promotion and Improvement Act of 2005 (S 1319) designed "to improve...

June 30, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Because the pension plan offered by an Idaho hospital was exempt from the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) as a church plan,...