Compliance

October 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Workers' Compensation Appeals Board has held that an employer is liable for an employee's out-of-network medical costs since it failed to...

October 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DoL) has announced it has filed a lawsuit against fiduciaries of the Agway Inc. 401(k) Plan for imprudently investing...

October 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DOL) has issued an advisory opinion that supports taking pension plan liabilities into account when setting out an investment...

October 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - 401(k) participants have won approval to proceed with their fiduciary breach lawsuit against their employer alleging the plan improperly made matching contributions with...

October 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Ninth Circuit has ruled that a woman whose claims that an individual retirement account (IRA) was exempt...

October 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Ohio has ruled that a debtor's payment to repay a 401(k) loan does not...

October 13, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Jurors in a Pennsylvania court determined that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. violated state labor laws by forcing employees to work during breaks and off...

October 13, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has ruled that a pension plan administrator erred in denying benefits to the...

October 12, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has ruled that the Unisys Corp. breached its fiduciary duties by telling a dozen former workers that they could get...

October 12, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the District of Arizona has ruled that the surviving spouse of man who rolled over a portion of...

October 12, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Maryland's highest court has upheld an injunction blocking officials from cutting the Medicaid benefits to almost 3,000 children and pregnant women who are...

October 12, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A California Court of Appeals has overturned a lower court's ruling that two female employees whose office was monitored with a hidden camera...

October 12, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The UK's pension watchdog said that pension schemes that accept new participants for lump sum death benefits only when the scheme has already...

October 11, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court decision that United Parcel Service (UPS) violated the Americans with Disabilities...

October 11, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's high court has turned away a request to review a long-running legal battle over whether the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC)...

October 11, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio has approved an $11 million settlement for a class of former employees of...

October 9, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A class action lawsuit over the payment of overtime compensation at Wells Fargo & Co. bank is the subject of a $12.8-million settlement...

October 9, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In unusually curt terms, a federal appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling denying allegations by a former IBM senior engineer that...

October 9, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the District of Connecticut ruled that fiduciary breach limitations set by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)...

October 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri ruled that the beneficiaries of a man who died from blood clots that...