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May 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - If at first you don't succeed; try, try, try - and in this case - try again, as legislation has one again been...

May 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employee can't challenge a benefits decision by his employer's health and welfare plan because of the plan's three-year limit on when lawsuits...

May 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The president of the 1.5-million member Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has put his union's US presidential endorsement on the table for the...

May 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Access to Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) and Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs) will soon be a credit card swipe away for Humana commercial members.

May 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Principal Financial Group participant education program is designed to keep the 401(k) retirement planning process as simple as possible.

May 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An insurer's decision to deny disability benefits is not entitled to court deference if it grounded its denial on a "selective" reading of...

May 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The use of office e-mail as a source of evidence in discrimination, sexual harassment, and antitrust claims is on the rise, yet most...

May 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Six current and former employees of an Indianapolis Home Depot have filed a lawsuit claiming racial discrimination and harassment.

May 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Some 9,000 fewer Americans applied for initial jobless benefits last week, but the number of people already on the unemployment rolls who continue...

May 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - There were 1,576 mass layoffs in April involving 161,095 workers - a slight increase in the number of layoffs over the year before...

May 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US companies continued cutting back on their help wanted advertising in April as the Conference Board's Help-Wanted Advertising Index declined three points.

May 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors have a new "no wrap" variable annuity contract to consider for their retirement plans from American United Life Insurance Company (AUL).

May 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - AIM Investments has unveiled The State Farm College Savings Plan - the latest entrant to the 529-plan market.

May 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Reversing course from the negative returns seen in March, final numbers reveal the MSCI Hedge Fund Index returned to its winning ways in...

May 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Assets in exchange-traded funds (ETF) rose to $110.48 billion in April from $100.83 billion the previous month.

May 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Most workers are motivated, care about the future of their company and feel their company is a good place to work - and...

May 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed a lawsuit against a trucking company for allegedly denying female workers jobs and subjecting them...

May 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Kenneth Stemme has been named the Director of Hedge Funds at Northern Trust Global Advisors Inc.

May 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An oral promise of severance benefits is not allowed for an Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) governed plan, and therefore state law...

May 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The United States Supreme Court unanimously held that employer-sponsored health care plans need not defer to an employee's doctor when deciding whether to...