Compliance

January 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even though a divorce decree reflected a bad address for a life insurance plan participant's ex-wife, the document still represented a qualified domestic...

January 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Supreme Court is set to decide on whether Kentucky's public employee retirement plan discriminates against older workers who become disabled.

January 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Internal Revenue Bulletin 2008-1 provides updates and restatements of eight IRS revenue procedures that govern letter rulings, information letters, determination letters, and other...

January 10, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - By a federal appellate court ruling the city of San Francisco won the right to implement its new law requiring employers to contribute...

January 10, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The owner and operator of a Salem, New Hampshire, business has been ordered to pay $100,000 to the company's profit sharing plan over...

January 10, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) announced it has sued Fifth Third Bank, adviser to the Operating Engineers Local 324 Pension Fund in...

January 10, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan has affirmed an accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) plan administrator's decision to deny...

January 9, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even though some of its stock option grants were made at "suspicious times," shareholders of office supply retailer Staples did not prove officers...

January 7, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court's decision that plan fiduciaries were not obligated to tell Thrift Plan participants...

January 7, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The South Carolina State Supreme Court has determined that an illegal immigrant who gained employment with the use of false documents is still...

January 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - A federal judge in Philadelphia has cleared a building materials manufacturer of wrongdoing in firing a half dozen sales representatives for violating its...

January 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - Because a 401(k) participant's widow had not yet married her husband when she signed a prenuptial agreement giving up her rights to her...

January 3, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has determined that a new regulation governing the definition of normal retirement age...

January 3, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The administrator of an accidental death benefit plan was within its rights in deciding that the widow of a participant who died after...

January 3, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California has determined that a current participant in an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)...

January 3, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In an effort to enact Pension Protection Act (PPA)-mandated changes, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has put out a proposed regulation generally barring...

January 3, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In an effort to enact Pension Protection Act (PPA)-mandated changes, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has put out a proposed regulation generally barring...

January 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - President Bush signed legislation on Monday that makes it easier for mutual funds and private pension funds to sell their investments in companies...

January 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Contrary to indications, President Bush has vetoed a bill that included an expansion of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) for certain...

As Nevin Adams, Editor-in-Chief of PLANSPONSOR magazine, put it, with any new legislation, there's the "figuring out what's there," and there's the "aftermath (figuring out what we don't...