Compliance

July 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A district court judge has ruled that American International Life Assurance Co. of New York (AIG) did not violate federal law when it...

July 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal officials have hit two Illinois residents with a federal court lawsuit charging them with improperly imposing plan fees and a variety of...

July 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A San Antonio, Texas jury found that Humana Inc. was partially responsible for a former patient's death and must pay part of the...

July 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Bush administration has taken aim on a sweeping pension reform bill wending its way through Congress, charging that it doesn't sufficiently deal...

July 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has rejected a $16.5 million settlement in the company stock case between Electronic Data Systems Corp. (EDS) and current and...

July 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A US House Democrat has introduced legislation forbidding discrimination against federal employees on the basis of sexual orientation.

July 5, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A bill that would change the taxation rules on domestic partner benefits has been reintroduced in the Senate.

July 5, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Senator Rick Santorum (R-Pennsylvania) has introduced The Telework Tax Incentive (bill S. 1292) to provide a tax credit up to $500 for...

July 5, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Chicago commodities futures and options trader won a partial victory with a ruling by a federal appeals court that he was entitled...

July 1, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling that a Cottage Grove, Minnesota specialty plastics manufacturer improperly denied health coverage to...

January 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Representative Gene Green (D-Texas) has renewed his reform efforts on corporate-owned life insurance (COLI).

July 1, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Oil company owner Frederick Fuller has agreed to a settlement of $780,000 to end a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against him by the...

January 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has upheld a decision by the administrator of an employer severance plan for turning down benefits to a fired...

January 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Taxpayers would be allowed to roll over money into a spouse's retirement savings account in another qualified plan or an IRA under a...

January 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new bill now before Congress would allow a minimum credit against the alternative minimum tax when stock from an incentive stock option...

January 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - HR officials who find out that an employee's social security number isn't correctly recorded on a W-2 form can withhold tax from the...

January 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Come Monday plan sponsors - and participants - will have some new retirement plan options to consider, and perhaps a few less to...

July 1, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The ex-wife of a pension plan participant can't pursue a lawsuit over whether she is still due benefits, because the participant had already...

June 30, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-Arkansas) has introduced the Employee Stock Ownership Plan Promotion and Improvement Act of 2005 (S 1319) designed "to improve...

June 30, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has ruled that a home furnishings rental company violated a federal anti-discrimination law when it administered a psychological test...