Compliance

June 30, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A sweeping pension reform bill penned by a prominent US House Republican passed a House committee Thursday even though Democrats withheld their votes...

June 30, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of 3M employees have lost another legal battle in their nine-year fight over whether the company breached its fiduciary duties by...

June 30, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Because the pension plan offered by an Idaho hospital was exempt from the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) as a church plan,...

June 29, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of Michigan public school retirees has come away empty-handed in its legal battle challenging increases in health care deductibles and copays...

June 29, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has kept alive the lawsuit filed by a former employee of Credit Suisse First Boston against the company claiming that...

June 29, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted 3-2 on Wednesday to add details about compliance costs and alternative approaches to its rules...

June 28, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court has rebuffed efforts by Lucent Technologies to overturn a federal appeals court ruling allowing former employees to pursue a...

June 27, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is sticking with its plan to downgrade eight of its 23 district offices and add two local...

June 24, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A measure approved by the US House of Representatives says that United Airlines will not be allowed to default on remaining pension plans,...

June 24, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A second set of regulatory guidance about nonqualified deferred compensation programs under Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Code 409A could be out by August,...

June 24, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has turned down a request by a group of former employees of a paper and lumber company to certify as...

June 24, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Department of Labor (DoL) has issued an advisory opinion stating that a state leave law similar to the Family and Medical...

June 23, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has reduced a workplace discrimination jury verdict against Wal-Mart by $4.7 million while bemoaning the fact that a legal cap...

June 23, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - California state authorities have fined Oakland, California-based Kaiser Foundation Health Plan $200,000 for having patient health information accessible on a Web site for...

June 23, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Department of Labor (DoL) has won a restraining order against two Rockville, Maryland companies and their owner preventing them from acting...

June 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has thrown out an injunction barring the trustee of United Airline's employee stock ownership plan from selling its shares...

June 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's high court has turned down a request by a group of San Antonio firefighters to review an appeals court ruling that...

June 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Legislation introduced Wednesday in Congress would require local officials to gather and publicly release the number of employees that companies located in their...

June 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Florida federal court jury has cleared Charlotte County officials of charges they fired a county secretary who complained about being sexually harassed.

June 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR) - Richard Goldblatt, president of Chicago Spectro Service Laboratory, Inc. is required to restore $626,215.20 to the company's profit sharing plan, according to a...