Compliance

September 10, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A New Jersey appellate court has affirmed dismissal of fraud charges against advisers who recommended that a firm join a multiemployer welfare benefit...

September 10, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has announced additional sessions of its compliance workshops.

September 5, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor's Employment Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) will provide a free workshop this month to help small businesses, employers, employee...

September 3, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court, agreeing with a lower court ruling, asserted that an employer was within its legal bounds when it gave pension...

September 3, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A New Jersey appellate court has concluded that a former employee who kept personal files on computers owned by his former employer had...

September 3, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Faced with overseeing a class action lawsuit that could have represented as many as 57,000 401(k) plans at the Principal Financial Group, a...

September 3, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Services has issued Notice 2008-73 expanding transitional relief on some funding requirements for certain small pension plans.

September 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a former employee who claimed to be unaware of an arbitration clause in...

September 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Illinois has ruled that a Verizon Communications cash balance plan administrative committee should have gone to court to resolve...

August 29, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has concluded that Lucent Technologies did not violate the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) when...

August 28, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York has ruled that an employer does not owe back pay and benefits...

August 22, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Staples office supply company has been cleared of wrongdoing in refusing to allow an ex-employee the right to exercise his stock options...

August 22, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Wyoming State Supreme Court has decided that an employee's education and training level, and not just total incapacitation, can cause the worker...

August 20, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a continuing trend of federal court rulings backing cash balance plans, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled the plans...

August 21, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two proposed regulations released Thursday from the Department of Labor (DoL) include a model for advisers to satisfy the fee disclosure requirement for...

August 21, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the Colorado Public Employees Retirement System (CoPERA) moved too late to intervene as...

August 21, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Labor Department's advice proposal drew a quick - and harsh - assessment from Congressman George Miller (D-California).

August 15, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Connecticut has ruled that while Nationwide Financial Services can legally countersue trustees of five 401(k) plans in a revenue...

August 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released an in-depth rewrite of its correction programs for retirement plan sponsors who have not complied with...

August 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has cleared an employer of wrongdoing in the firing of an employee who returned to work while receiving disability...