Compliance

May 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Legislation re-introduced into the Senate aims to prompt greater retirement planning for women by: giving new tax incentives for annuities, and imposing new...

May 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has upheld a lower court ruling that the ex-wife of a dead life insurance plan participant is the proper...

May 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A measure that bars workplace sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination has been reintroduced in the U.S. House of Representatives , according to...

May 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The UK's Pension Regulator said it will focus on boosting the funding of defined benefit schemes, improving the governance of work-based pensions and...

May 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Legislation reintroduced into the U.S. Senate aims to prompt greater retirement planning for women by giving new tax incentives for annuities, imposing new...

May 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has ruled that permitting a disabled worker to continue to work from home may represent a reasonable accommodation by...

May 7, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - California's high court has ruled that when employers are faced with workers' compensation claims from employees with previous injuries, the employer is only...

May 4, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers without retirement plans would be required to establish an automatic payroll deduction program to an individual retirement account (IRA) under new legislation.

May 3, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Hawaii has ruled that a California-based infrastructure design company violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act's (ERISA) anti-cutback rule...

May 1, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Oklahoma Senate approved a bill aimed at bolstering the state's retirement system for teachers by increasing employer contributions by about 1.6%, the...

May 1, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The pension plan participants of an Atlanta home builder, whose mortgage subsidiary was involved in the risky subprime lending market, sued the fiduciaries...

April 30, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Newly issued rules on the taxation of distributions from Roth 401(k) accounts keep many provisions of the proposed version of the regulations while...

April 30, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The president of a Millstone Township, New Jersey-based contracting company was sentenced to five years in state prison for failing to deposit more...

April 27, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - The U.S. District of South Carolina ruled a health maintenance organization (HMO) could not sue an employer as a fiduciary under the Employee...

April 27, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - The Utah Supreme Court has ruled that the health care plan covering the adoptive father of a baby boy born with severe birth...

April 26, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Cash balance plans got another legal vote of confidence with a federal judge's ruling that Verizon Communications' cash balance program is not age...

April 26, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A bill barring genetic discrimination by employers or health insurers by not hiring or refusing to provide coverage to those predisposed to certain...

April 26, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan said a former ProQuest employee lacks the standing to sue her former employer...

April 26, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A measure allowing same-sex unions cleared the New Hampshire Senate on Thursday, potentially making the state the fourth to allow such unions, the...

April 25, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has upheld the denial of benefits to a former bank worker because he was fired for improperly accessing his...