Compliance

August 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit has disagreed with a lower court decision that an ERISA case be dismissed because...

August 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service on Friday issued new guidance on how it would handle consideration of remedial amendments for individually-designed and pre-approved qualified...

August 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Justices of the South Carolina Supreme Court have ruled that a lawsuit by four retirees over the Teacher and Employee Retention Incentive (TERI)...

August 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has slapped a Puerto Rican company with a $2,500 fine for delaying its response to an employee's inquiry about the...

August 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has proposed regulations to clarify several issues involving deductions for dividends on employer securities held in employee stock...

August 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - North Carolina has adopted a new workers' compensation law that eases employers' ability to access employees' private medical records.

August 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has cleared the former owner of a company that made television commercials for advertising agencies of wrongdoing for not providing...

August 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The IRS and US Treasury have issued proposed regulations regarding comparability rules for employer contributions to employees' Health Savings Accounts (HSAs).

August 24, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An Oklahoma federal judge has certified as a class action a lawsuit filed by current and former K plan participants from Williams Cos....

August 23, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New Ohio legislation signed into law by Governor Bob Taft allows companies in the state offering group health insurance to start offering high-deductible...

August 23, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers submitting data to Medicare officials as part of the application for the new Medicare Part D retiree drug subsidy may get their...

August 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DoL) plans to propose a regulation by the end of the year that will encourage employers to use automatic...

August 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) of the US Department of Labor has issued final approval of amendments to prohibited transaction rules outlining...

August 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has breathed new life into a whistleblower lawsuit filed by two former Fulton County, Georgia workers who claimed they...

August 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Upholding a lower court ruling, federal appellate judges have cleared an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) trustee of wrongdoing in connection with the...

August 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney now has a bill on his desk that guarantees state workers on active military duty won't lose salary or...

August 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The list of ailing pension plans seeking the shelter of the nation's private-sector pension insurer continued apace Friday.

August 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Department of Labor (DoL) has filed suit against the trustees of the Cleveland-based Sheet Metal Workers Local 33 pension plan for...

August 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retail companies that sell groceries would have to make substantial contributions toward their employees' health insurance coverage costs according to a bill that...

August 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Though divided on the issue, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled that an employer's comment that the company was actively seeking to...