Compliance

February 27, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's workplace anti-discrimination agency has released a new guidance document on how to apply the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to health...

February 26, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Illinois has thrown out as unconstitutional a 2005 Illinois law limiting pension investments and state banking business with Sudan-connected...

February 26, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has ruled that Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (MetLife) properly denied accidental death or dismemberment (ADD) benefits to the survivor of...

February 26, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal regulators have released the necessary technical amendment to extend the interim final rules under the Mental Health Parity Act (MHPA) to December...

February 26, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that an Oklahoma lubricants refinery did not illegally fire an employee receiving disability benefits after...

February 23, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that plan participants are not required to prove they could have been harmed as a...

February 23, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In an unusual ruling involving all of its 15 judges, a federal appellate court has declared that federal officials can seize a criminal...

February 23, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Wisconsin Supreme Court said it would decide if municipalities can intervene in a case between the state and state employees over the...

February 23, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A checklist published by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) can help plan sponsors comply with the myriad of laws and rules that govern...

February 23, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A U.S. District Court ruled that a lawsuit filed by Enron Corp. investors against Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. and Credit Suisse Group...

February 23, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Supreme Court has left standing a ruling that denied Dow Chemical Company's efforts to get tax deductions for interest it incurred...

February 22, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Florida state court has ruled that a Pasco County printing company fired an employee for missing work to serve on jury duty,...

February 22, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service has updated its list of the "Dirty Dozen," 12 of the most blatant scams affecting American taxpayers.

February 21, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas said that a life insurance administrator misinterpreted the summary plan description (SPD) when...

February 21, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A US District judge in Arizona ruled an America West employee fired for distributing sexually explicit and sometimes pornographic e-mails via the company...

February 21, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Supreme Court has turned away two appeals involving State Street Bank & Trust Co.'s work as directed trustee for the United...

February 21, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.K. High Court has sided with four pensioners over whether the government should have to fully compensate workers whose pension plans have...

February 21, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has thrown out an age discrimination ruling in favor of an employer and clarified its legal direction in cases...

February 20, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge last week reduced former Maryland pension fund manager Nathan A. Chapman Jr.'s 7 ½-year prison sentence by more than two...

February 20, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new report from a federal government watchdog agency said the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) continues to not have an adequate assessment...