Compliance

December 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Profit Sharing/401(k) Council of America (PSCA) has taken issue with an IRS revenue ruling concerning profit sharing plans that include medical reimbursement...

December 13, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US 6th Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a lower court's ruling for an employer who terminated an employee for not providing...

December 13, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - House Education & the Workforce Committee Chairman John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Ways & Means Committee Chairman Bill Thomas (R-California) today announced an agreement...

December 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In response to all the concern about its reported deficit, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) posted a Q & A, "Understanding the...

December 9, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Maryland has allowed a K plan participant to push forward with his allegations of an Employee Retirement Income Security...

December 9, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Texas has ruled for the plaintiff in a lawsuit against a long-term disability insurer after finding that the summary...

December 9, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Profit Sharing/401(k) Council of America (PSCA) is urging the House of Representatives to enact its Pension Protection Act (HR 2830) before it...

December 8, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The administrator of a life insurance plan should not have refused to pay benefits to the father of a beneficiary who lied about...

December 8, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The New Jersey Superior Court ruled that stock options awarded to a husband as a signing and retention bonus by his new employer...

December 8, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri ruled that a court order that divided pension plan benefits between a participant...

December 8, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A settlement was reached in a trial after testimony that the woman who claimed sexual harassment against her company was actually a willing...

December 8, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Internal Revenue Service (IRS) officials have published IRS Notice 2005-94 that provides that employers are not required to report deferrals of compensation under...

December 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a second ruling relating to a Qwest Communications lawsuit, Chief US District Judge Lewis Babcock decided a pension plan committee's investment guidelines...

December 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Almost half (46%) of responding S&P 100 companies admit that they fail to publicly release Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) data in full, according...

December 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Michigan has agreed with an accidental death benefit plan participant that the plan administrator acted unreasonably when it refused...

December 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has issued a warning that hiring managers should not prejudge a job applicant's medical condition and use that as...

December 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Qwest Communications retirees won partial victories in their fight to get information about the management of their pension fund.

December 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court refused to review a case concerning a blind worker who was fired for a bad attitude, poor work ethic,...

December 5, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in West Virginia has thrown out a benefits denial by an accidental death and dismemberment benefit plan administrator who turned...

December 5, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Western District of North Carolina denied summary judgment in favor of an employer accused of a breach...