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August 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Electronically quoted reimbursement rates given to pharmacists required by a contract take precedent over any claims for alleged overpayments.

April 8, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The beleaguered Illinois state retirement plans could get a much-needed financial shot in the arm from a plan by Governor Rod Blagojevich for...

August 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors seeking compliance assistance on federal health benefits law regarding qualified medical child support orders have a new compliance guide at their...

April 8, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of investors have filed a complaint with the US District Court in the Southern District of New York against Beacon Hill...

August 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A drop in the amount of compensation received from stock options was a major player in the 1.6%-decline of the average non-employee director...

April 8, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A shareholder group plans to leverage its success with Dell Computer Corp. in committing to a computer-recycling program to help convince other computer...

August 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The head of the Johns Manville retiree group has called on US Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao to investigate whether Johns Manville Corporation...

April 8, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US House of Representatives is expected to approve a proposal allowing the US Postal Service to reduce payments made to a pension...

August 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new conference committee in the California legislature has been charged with drafting a compromise bill of four different health-care proposals in an...

April 8, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of HealthSouth Corp. workers has sued former Chief Executive Richard Scrushy and two other trustees of the company's employee stock ownership...

August 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - On Friday, a federal appeals court ruled against Xerox in a case involving the calculation of retiree benefits from its cash balance plan.

August 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The right of a participant's former spouse under a qualified domestic relations order (QDRO) to retirement plan benefits takes priority over a federal...

March 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A financial executives' professional group is urging that companies follow its new set of performance guidelines in order to avoid problems similar to...

March 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite the recent proliferation of new college savings plans coming on the market, a new survey found that more than half of American...

March 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Shareholders of Compaq Computer Corp. overwhelmingly approved the proposed merger with Hewlett Packard Co (HP), according to Compaq officials.

March 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court let stand a federal appeals court ruling that a 401(k) participant can't sue his company's plan administrator for not...

March 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A debate over whether older workers can sue their employers over layoffs will play out in the US Supreme Court today.

March 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With the aim of safeguarding America's retirement savings, committees of both the House of Representatives and the Senate are scheduled to vote on...

February 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Stockholders of the Walt Disney Co, the first company - following the Enron scandal - to announce plans to have different companies doing...

February 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -Although premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance in California rose by 9.9% last year, double the state's 4.3% inflation rate, premiums still remained lower than...