Compliance

May 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Maryland Governor Robert Ehrlich Jr. on Thursday vetoed a bill effectively forcing retailing giant Wal-Mart to step up its employee health benefit spending...

May 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has cleared the way for two former employees of SBC Communications to pursue their lawsuit alleging their defined benefit...

May 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Louisiana federal judge has upheld the ruling of an accidental death benefit plan administrator who refused to pay benefits to the widow...

May 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A New York administrative law judge has ruled that the Empire State's Division of Taxation should not tax the income of a man...

May 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has ruled that a Naugatuck, Connecticut company cannot drop retirement benefit agreements it had with four executives who it...

May 17, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An Accenture employee can't sue the consulting firm over changes in its leave of absence policies since the company partly retracted the rule...

May 17, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - West Virginia health insurers are now mandated to cover prescription contraceptive drugs or contraceptive devices approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration...

May 17, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has ruled that corporations cannot buy corporate-owned life insurance policies (COLIs) for all of their full-time workers because they...

May 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two US House Democrats have introduced legislation putting a six-month moratorium on bankrupt companies transferring their pension plans to the US private pension...

May 13, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lawmakers have resurrected several previous attempts to restrict companies from taking out corporate-owned life insurance policies (COLI) to top executives and highly compensated...

May 13, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The UK's equivalent of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) is accepting responsibility for pension plans from companies on the edge of bankruptcy...

May 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has refused to throw out a fuel delivery driver's lawsuit under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA), because it...

May 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A US Bankruptcy judge has approved Murray Inc.'s request to use cash collateral held by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp (PBGC) to help...

May 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-New York) showed off an odd political alliance Wednesday as she unveiled a new measure to reform the...

May 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Insurance premiums that financially healthy companies pay to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) would increase by more than twice those of their...

May 11, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal officials have accused the former president of a now-defunct Spring Lake, Michigan home builder of misusing more than $1 million in K...

May 9, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Alaska state House approved a contentious retirement overhaul bill Friday - but in the process may have undermined its chances of passage...

May 9, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—A US District Judge refused to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a man who claims that, upon his return from a three-month Family and Medical...

May 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Michigan state appeals court has ruled that a woman who agreed to give up claims on her husband's plan benefits as part...

May 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Iowa Governor Thomas Vilsack has signed into law a bill mandating that companies providing workplace health care policies also provide coverage for treatment...