Compliance

January 30, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Backers of the highly controversial cash balance plans have won two legal victories in recent days with rulings from a lower federal court...

January 29 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department is questioning whether some qualified defined benefit plans include non-traditional benefits that are not subject to...

January 29, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A West Virginia circuit court judge has ruled that merging the state's two teacher pension plans is unconstitutional, handing a legal victory to...

January 29, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Chicago-based food trade group has been cleared of allegations it violated federal law by firing its vice president of sales after finding...

January 29, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department are asking for public comment on how the agencies should regulate the inclusion of certain...

January 26, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The European Court of Justice called the protection the UK gives to pensioners whose companies go bust "inadequate," and said that it should...

January 26, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Because a qualified domestic relations order (QDRO) allowing a participant's common-law wife a portion of his pension is valid under state law, it...

January 25, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Utah has ordered that a Utah-based Coca-Cola bottler retroactively enroll an employee in its long-term disability (LTD) plan since...

January 25, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retail giant Wal-Mart Stores revealed Thursday that it had agreed to pay about $34 million in back wages to thousands of workers underpaid...

January 25, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DoL) has filed suit against New Britain, Connecticut-based Macristy Industries Inc. and its president for allegedly misdirecting more than...

January 24, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors who worry that the benefits of their health-care coverage aren't fully appreciated will likely see a renewed interest by workers after...

January 23, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. House of Representatives has passed H.R. 476 that would strip Congressional pensions from lawmakers convicted of crimes such as bribery, fraud...

January 23, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With a recent ruling by a federal appellate court, four prisoners in the Michigan prison system have lost another legal battle in their...

January 23, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has ruled that an employer with a terminated defined benefit plan improperly calculated lump-sum distributions using an outdated mortality...

As regulators begin to tackle details of the Pension Protection Act of 2006 (PPA), a panel of Washington insiders says that plan sponsors have a perfect opportunity to...

January 22, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that foreign nationals who are not residents of Tennessee can be considered dependents under the state's...

January 22, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has ruled that a worker for a property management company who was ultimately diagnosed with prostate cancer had properly...

January 22, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A bipartisan Congressional coalition has reintroduced a measure barring group health plans and insurers from not granting coverage for a healthy person or...

January 19, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's private-sector pension insurer has taken responsibility for four pension funds covering almost 900 current and former employees of Kaiser Aluminum &...

January 18, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois has affirmed a plan participant's charge that the owners of the company for...