Compliance

January 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is expected to float a proposal to establish a self-regulatory body to oversee the US mutual...

March 31, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has blocked a federal agency from implementing a controversial rule allowing employers to cut back or eliminate retiree health benefits...

March 31, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In an interesting twist in the same-sex marriage debate, a Connecticut couple filing for an annulment of their civil marriage have been told...

March 30, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A New York Court of Appeals has narrowly ruled that a state policy that taxes out-of-state telecommuters on 100% of their income does...

March 30, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) Section 510 protects employees who question a 401(k) plan's funding status from discrimination, a federal appeals court...

March 30, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court has ruled that age discrimination need not be intentional for employers to be held liable for its effects.

March 29, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Supreme Court justices on Tuesday expanded the protection of the Title IX anti-discrimination statute to not only cover victims, but those who...

March 28, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has upheld the ruling of a lower court that a long-term disability (LTD) insurance provider did not act improperly...

March 28, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal court has ruled that the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) does not have a fiduciary duty to correct the mistakes of...

March 28, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Illinois Supreme Court has ruled that a man who had a heart attack after work is eligible for workers compensation benefits.

March 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two pilots for a commuter carrier later acquired by American Airlines have lost another round in their legal battle against the company and...

March 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A wife who sought a restraining order against her husband - an event that resulted in his being fired as a sheriff's deputy...

March 24, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A New York state appeals court has upheld a workers compensation law that excludes death benefits for domestic partners.

March 23, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DoL) has settled charges that the trustees of 10 pension and health plans invested plan assets in risky private...

March 23, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Wednesday's release of the 2005 Social Security Trustees Report was mostly full of bad news.

March 23, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal court has refused to dismiss a claim brought by retirement plan participants against AOL Time Warner that alleged that the company...

March 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal of a decision that an employer acted reasonably in ruling that an employee...

March 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two prominent Republican members of the US House of Representatives on Friday called for the US Department of Labor (DoL) to investigate whether...

March 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Responding to public requests that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) disclose more about how it goes about auditing K plans, the IRS has...

March 17, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has ruled that retirees may be entitled to "lifetime" heath benefits because of ambiguous plan language, and has sent...