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February 13, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former Congressman has been tapped to run the federal pension insurer as acting executive director until departing agency head Steven Kandarian can...

February 13, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service today issued guidelines, as promised, to shut down abusive transactions involving specially designed life insurance policies in retirement...

February 13, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors hoping for a sneak peek at the 2004 regulatory agenda need look no further than the recently published agendas for the...

February 13, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has fined an Iowa union health plan $5,885 for not providing a participant and his wife timely notice of their...

February 13, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court's ruling that the will of a life insurance plan participant can effectively serve as...

February 13, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)-The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Notice 2004-16 stating that it will not be required for any employers to issue 1099 forms for all payments...

February 13, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - It isn't enough anymore for a corporate leader to respond to change as it comes through the doorway; being truly effective as an...

February 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal pension insurer has taken over the badly underfunded pension plan covering more than 17,600 workers and retirees of a bankrupt Texas...

December 2, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers Reinsurance Corp. (ERC) has discovered a handful of instances in which two of its workers conspired with Marsh Inc. employees to rig...

February 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—Scudder Retirement Services (SRS) added 12 new mutual funds to the investment options available in the Scudder Flex Plan, a small business retirement plan product,...

December 26, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced a settlement in a sexual harassment suit against South Beach Beverage Company, Inc (SoBe), a...

December 26, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Maine state law forcing drug makers to slash prices 18% to 25% has been tossed by a Washington federal appeals court.

December 26, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal officials have taken the president of a now-defunct Ohio military contractor to court to recover hundreds of thousands of dollars in profit-...

December 26, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - California employers failing to report a fatal or serious injury of an employee to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) now face...

December 26, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Funds from the recent $1.4 billion settlement from Wall Street firms, accused of issuing biased research, will now be earmarked for investor education,...

December 26, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - International Business Machines (IBM) Corp. set aside $500 million more in company stock for its US retirement plan, raising the total stock value...

December 26, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - BISYS, a provider of financial services outsourcing services, has announced the acquisition of Career Brokerage, a New York-based insurance brokerage firm specializing in...

February 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - First-time claims for unemployment benefits last week bumped up unexpectedly by 6,000 to 363,000 from the previous week's revised 357,000.

February 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -The number of extended mass layoffs at US employers took a dramatic drop the fourth quarter of 2003, compared to the same period a...

February 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)-Less than one-half (47%) of employees believe that their organization's pay policy is fair, while 27% think that their base pay does not fairly represent...