Compliance | December 29th, 2006 Spouse Absent for 18 Months Can Get Death Benefits December 29, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan granted summary judgment to a...
Benefits | December 21st, 2006 Study: Health SPD Readability Too Advanced for Average Participants December 21, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The average health care summary plan document (SPD) that contains information about eligibility, benefits and...
Benefits | December 21st, 2006 USW Retirees Seek to Enforce Medical Benefit Promise December 21, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - United Steelworkers (USW) retirees and their union have filed a class action lawsuit against Continental...
Compliance | December 20th, 2006 Court Affirms Denial of Benefits to Drunk Driver December 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Middle District of Florida has granted summary judgment in...
Compliance | December 19th, 2006 Court Upholds Ruling in ERISA Conversion of Assets Case December 19, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a conviction for conversion of plan...
Compliance | December 14th, 2006 Death Cause not Necessarily Accident Under Plan Terms December 14, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin denied accidental death benefits for...
Compliance | December 12th, 2006 Appellate Judges Uphold ExxonMobil Insurance Denial December 12, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even though the ExxonMobil employee benefits department posthumously signed up a physician for added life...
Compliance | November 28th, 2006 Fiduciary Breach Claims Must Seek Relief for Whole Plan November 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio ruled that claims alleging a...
Compliance | November 21st, 2006 Court Overturns Benefits Ruling for Widow of Drunk Driver November 21, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a lower court's decision that the...
Compliance | November 17th, 2006 Employee Fired for Plan Inquiry Awarded Damages November 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the District of Minnesota has awarded damages and attorney's fees...
Compliance | November 8th, 2006 Company Fined for Failure to Provide Plan Documents November 8, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan has ruled that a plan...
Compliance | November 6th, 2006 Extra-judicial Contracts Sufficient to Recoup Benefit Overpayments November 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a plan administrator is not required...
Compliance | October 30th, 2006 Plan Document Trumps Antenuptial Agreement in Favor of Surviving Spouse October 29, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Western District of Kentucky ruled that, even though the...
Compliance | October 27th, 2006 Former Employee Has no Standing in Company Stock Suit October 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Eastern District of New York ruled that a 401(k)...
Compliance | October 23rd, 2006 Ex-Union President Wins $300K in Disability Benefits October 23, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A union pension plan committee failed to prove that a former union president's stress-related ailments...
Compliance | October 23rd, 2006 Physical Disability Alone not Enough to Deny Benefits October 23, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that an administrator of a multiemployer pension...
Compliance | October 20th, 2006 Participant Time-Barred from Fiduciary Claim Against Coca-Cola October 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia ruled that a former Coca-Cola...
Compliance | October 16th, 2006 DoL Sues Agway over Co. Stock Fund Management October 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DoL) has announced it has filed a lawsuit against fiduciaries of...
Compliance | October 16th, 2006 Woman May Pursue Claim of IRA Exclusion in Bankruptcy October 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Ninth Circuit has ruled that a woman whose claims...
Compliance | October 13th, 2006 Court Rules Plan Must Comply with Posthumous QDRO October 13, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has ruled that a pension...