Compliance

April 28, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has ruled that a long-term disability benefit plan administrator wrongly cut off benefits to a hospital clerk afflicted with...

April 27, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Justice (DoJ) has sued a Florida-based flight-training academy on behalf of an Air Force reservist who was supposedly fired because...

April 27, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DoL) has obtained a consent judgment that permanently bars Jeff Thomas Allen, the chairman, president and CEO of Advanced...

April 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has ruled that a division of Honeywell International holding a US Department of Energy (DoE) contract didn't violate federal...

April 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Three US House Republicans have joined forces to introduce a new bill that provides tax incentives for employers who help pick up the...

April 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pennsylvania Senate has passed legislation that would exempt health savings accounts (HSAs) from that state's personal income tax.

April 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has refused to overturn a decision by a long-term disability policy provider denying benefits to a former marketing agency executive...

April 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal court jury in Columbia, South Carolina has awarded a group of institutional investors $200 million in their securities claims against two...

April 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The employer of an employee who received an e-mail about a reduction-in-force program but was not selected for the program did not violate...

April 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Just because a plan recordkeeper worked on a plan regulated by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), it does not give a...

April 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC) has come out in opposition to the House-proposed Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) premium hike, saying that it...

April 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The ongoing battle between United Airlines and the federal private-sector pension insurer over the fate of the troubled air carrier's four pension plans...

April 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The top insurance regulator in the state of Michigan - as well as its Governor - are urging congressional delegates from the state...

April 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Microsoft has refused to endorse a Washington state bill that would have made it illegal to discriminate based on sexual orientation - a...

April 21, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has issued a tentative ruling against a group of employees who claim that their former employer should have given them...

April 21, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Numerous US airlines may get a break on their pension contributions if legislation introduced in the Senate Wednesday passes.

April 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal officials say employers don't have to put workers sent out of town for long periods back on the clock when they voluntarily...

April 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A bill that would allow a union to be formed if a majority of employees supported such a move has been introduced by...

April 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's high court has refused to get involved in the appeal of a lower court ruling that a cash balance plan participant...

April 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A participant in a severance plan who only learned about his ineligibility for benefits through an informal conversation with a human resources executive...