Compliance

November 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC), the National Business Group on Health (NBGH), and the American Benefits Council (ABC) have filed friend-of-the-court briefs reiterating...

November 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that on October 31, 2008, the United States District Court for the district of Massachusetts entered...

November 3, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has moved forward several fiduciary breach claims against Comcast Corporation for its handling...

November 3, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has announced that the maximum insurance benefit for participants in underfunded pension plans terminating in 2009 is...

October 31, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has shot down a highly-compensated former employee's attempt to limit the offset of his pension plan...

October 31, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The majority of U.S.-based employers in a recent survey said they want to continue to provide employee health care coverage, but do not...

October 30, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has ruled that a plan sponsor cannot rely on Florida state law to sue Merrill Lynch for allegedly aiding...

October 29, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - According to Segal Company, Section 211 of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (EESA), signed by President Bush on October 3, amends Section 132...

October 29, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A health plan trade group has asked the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to delay the deadline for filing excise tax returns and payments...

October 28, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The fiduciaries of BP Corp. North America Inc.'s retirement plans have accused Northern Trust Co. of breaching their fiduciary duties by not disclosing...

October 28, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has sentenced the owner of a Reno-based technology firm to a year in prison for embezzling approximately $128,000 from the...

October 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In prepared testimony and a series of questions following, the executive director of the nation's private pension plan insurer tried to give lawmakers...

October 27, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Golden Gate Restaurant Association has asked all of the judges on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear a ruling...

October 27, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A divided en banc Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court panel ruled 4-3 that the testimony of two doctors was enough to prove that a workers'...

October 27, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Treasury Deputy Benefits Tax Counsel Helen H. Morrison told attendees at a recent Webinar that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will waive the...

October 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a federal appellate court ruling, an Illinois psychologist got more time to pursue her legal claims for assets missing from her 401(k)...

October 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a letter signed by 33 403(b) practitioners and advisers, two attorneys requested an extension of the effective date for complying with the...

October 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) has sued Zenith Capital LLC of Santa Rosa, California, and its executives for investing the assets of...

October 23, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a company stock suit, the U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a settlement restoring $8,590,000 to participants of the Agway Inc. 401(k)...

October 22, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's private-sector pension insurer has taken over the pension covering employees of a Portland, Oregon pulp and lumber company.