Compliance

March 28, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New Jersey Supreme Court justices are considering whether a Smith Barney company stock policy in which brokers who leave the firm before two...

March 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has awarded the ex-wife of a pension plan trustee penalties of $50 per day for not being supplied with plan...

March 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal regulators have contended that fiduciaries may still be legally required to disclose plan fees such as revenue sharing even if such a...

March 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has ruled that a retirement and welfare plan committee can seek reimbursement of...

March 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Because 401(k) participants suing Kraft Foods Global Inc., over plan fees are relying on the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) for their...

March 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has ruled that government entities cannot file racketeering lawsuits to recoup money spent to further a public policy objective.

March 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee has ruled that the third-party administrator for a medical benefits plan was wrong...

March 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Social Security Board of Trustees has released its annual report on the financial health of the Social Security Trust Funds.

March 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) announced it will publish a proposed regulation providing a model notice for use by multiemployer defined benefit...

March 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has issued Technical Update 08-2, which waives reporting under the PBGC's reportable events regulation of missed quarterly...

March 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a federal appeals court ruling that upholds an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) rule...

March 21, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A California state judge who had already ruled that managers at popular coffee emporium Starbucks routinely raided the tip jars in its Golden...

March 21, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Health and Welfare Committee of the Kentucky House voted to reject a Senate bill that would bar state universities and other public...

March 21, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Colorado has given participants challenging their employer's cash balance plan a chance to rewrite their lawsuit to better define...

March 20, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has ruled that an employer can't cut retired union members' health benefits because a union contract links the benefits...

March 20, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has rejected pleas to spare former Brocade Human Resources chief Stephanie Jensen from serving prison time in connection with a...

March 20, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) announced it will publish a final rule to amend PBGC's regulations on Premium Rates and Payment of...

March 19, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The SPARK Institute has filed a 13-page comment letter with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) about the new 403(b) retirement savings plan regulations,...

March 19, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Supreme Court has turned away an appeal from the family of a former Wal-Mart employee injured in a car crash in...

March 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's private-sector pension insurer announced on Tuesday that it will publish a proposed new rule implementing changes mandated by the Pension Protection...