Compliance

May 30, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington has ruled that an employee organization legally cannot establish or maintain a 403(b)...

May 29, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A nearly seven-year legal fight between Allstate Insurance Co. and its agents over their employment status has concluded with a ruling that a...

May 28, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. Solicitor General Paul D. Clement is recommending the Supreme Court hear a case involving a test of Employee Retirement Income Security Act...

May 28, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas has determined that a telephone company's program that provides reimbursement for phone services...

May 28, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. Supreme Court justices have rendered broad interpretations of workplace discrimination laws giving employees protection from retaliation even if such protection was not...

May 27, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Senate has sanctioned a bill allowing reservists being activated for military duty to take a tax-free distribution of their flexible spending...

May 23, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In an attempt to reach a compromise on mental health parity legislation, U. S. House conferees agreed to drop a major provision in...

May 23, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New Hampshire Governor John Lynch has signed into law a bill designed to protect the state from an onslaught of teacher retirements and...

May 22, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a decision that could have an affect on a variety of mutual fund fee lawsuits, and that experts say reversed the precedent,...

May 22, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal district court has determined that an impeached Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice can sue individual state retirement board members for allegedly causing...

May 22, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia has determined the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) did not breach its fiduciary...

May 22, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Florida Governor Charlie Crist signed into law a bill intended to offer new health coverage to uninsured Floridians and a competitive insurance marketplace...

May 21, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Several provisions of a bill passed unanimously by the U.S. House of Representatives - including one allowing penalty-free withdrawals from a flexible spending...

May 21, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -A new proposal would allow the federal Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) to institute wide-ranging changes including adding additional investment options on its own, starting...

May 21, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - President Bush on Wednesday signed the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act into law.

May 20, 2008 ((b)lines) - Many of the new requirements for 403(b) plans will result in structures that look much like their Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)-governed...

May 20, 2008 ((b)lines) - An adviser asks: "Based on the final 403(b) regs it appears the IRS will no longer allow direct rollovers from a 403(b) to...

May 20, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) is bringing its fiduciary workshop to Springfield, Missouri.

May 19, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A 10th U.S. Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel has upheld a lower court ruling that the proceeds of debtor's rolled over benefits from an...

May 15, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama rejected the attempt by an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) participant to revive...