Compliance

February 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Because John Hancock Life Insurance Co. could be judged to have been a fiduciary in a Troy, Michigan, law firm's 401(k) plan, the...

February 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Kentucky state Senate has approved a bill banning Kentucky's eight public universities and other state agencies from offering benefits to domestic partners...

February 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has determined it was an error for a federal district court to decide a court-ordered child...

February 8, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Legal Arizona Workers Act, which calls for suspension and revocation of licenses of businesses that knowingly employ unauthorized workers, has been upheld...

February 8, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division has completed proposed revisions to the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and will...

February 7, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in New York has thrown out a lawsuit by a former IBM employee over his pension benefits after ruling the...

February 5, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts recently held that employer W.R. Grace and Co. and State Street Bank and Trust...

February 5, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit by federal employees in Alaska and Hawaii claiming their pension calculation is discriminatory compared to...

February 5, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri has remanded a health plan participant's suit for breach of fiduciary duty...

February 5, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While allowing retirees to move forward with their lawsuit seeking reimbursement of health care expenses incurred after their employer benefits were cut off,...

February 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Kentucky state appellate court has upheld a lower court ruling that the Lexington Urban County government underfunded its police and firefighter pension...

February 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A New York appellate court has decided that same-sex marriages validly performed out-of-state must be legally recognized, just as the law recognizes those...

February 1, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has tentatively approved a settlement in a suit over the investment of General Motors stock in the automaker's 401(k) plan.

February 1, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - New guidance issued by the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) provides that cash balance conversions that have filed for an...

February 1, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - Federal regulators have released new guidance that asserts that a named or functional fiduciary that has authority to appoint a plan's trustee(s) must...

January 31, 2008 (PLANPSONSOR.com) - The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Ohio has ruled the interests of seven debtors in Employee Retirement Income Security Act...

January 31, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - You probably wouldn't think the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) would be inclined to send you an email alerting you to the fact that...

January 31, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear an appeal of a key pension decision that was seen as favorable to plan...

January 31, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that, when proposed regulations regarding maintenance of certain funding balances and regarding substitute...

January 31, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employee of an HR consulting firm fired as part of a corporate merger won a legal battle when a federal judge ruled...