Compliance

March 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A California state judge has tentatively excused five of eight former city and pension officials from a lawsuit accusing the group of illegally...

March 24, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two retired employees of General Electric have filed a lawsuit against the company claiming it breached its fiduciary duties under the Employee Retirement...

March 24, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) is seeking private legal advice to help sort through a range of possible financial scenarios involving General...

March 24, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Members of the Atlanta City Council this week gave unanimous backing to measures that would allow participants in the city's three pension funds...

March 23, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the District of Massachusetts has ruled that former profit sharing plan participants lack standing to obtain relief for...

March 22, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Michigan has ruled that Ford Motor Co. was out of line when it told the ex-wife of a dead...

March 22, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's high court has rebuffed efforts to appeal a ruling that Allstate Insurance did not commit age discrimination during a 1999 corporate...

March 22, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service has released IRS Notice 2006-33 that provides transitional relief to nonqualified plans whose assets are held in certain off-shore...

March 22, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - BP Corporation of North America and UBS Global Management have agreed to the joint $7 million settlements of two lawsuits over allegations employees'...

March 21, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An Indiana auto parts manufacturer was under no obligation to continue retiree health coverage after a series of union contracts expired, a federal...

March 21, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While Congressional conferees were engaged in reviewing/reconciling pension reform bills - one passed by the House, the other by the Senate - a...

March 21, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has overturned a lower court ruling dismissing an employer's suit against a former employee over alleged violations of the...

March 21, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Colorado legislature has moved forward a parental leave bill that will require employers to have a policy allowing employees paid time off...

March 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has announced a technical amendment extending the interim final rules under the Mental Health...

March 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A bill to mandate employer spending on employee health care for companies of all sizes has been introduced in the Maryland legislature.

March 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As US House and Senate negotiators continue trying to hammer out a compromise pension reform measure, United Parcel Service (UPS) has it sights...

March 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A pension plan participant who filed a fiduciary breach suit under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) simply waited too long before...

March 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal officials have clarified the circumstances under which health plans can legitimately give out medical information to people who call on the patient's...

March 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Americans without access to a workplace retirement savings plan would be able to contribute to an IRA via payroll deduction under a new...

March 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A woman who claimed her former employer discriminated against her because of her age by deliberately accepting her resignation six weeks before her...