Compliance

January 21, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has ruled that state law, federal confidentiality law and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) do not prohibit...

January 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Reversing a lower court's ruling, the US 6th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a long-term disability benefit plan participant who worked...

January 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has announced that it will assume responsibility for the pensions of about 4,500 employees of outdoor power...

January 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A US bankruptcy court has found that the funds transferred from a bankrupt individual's individual retirement account (IRA) to the Internal Revenue Service...

January 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers are required starting February 1 to post a workplace injuries and illness summary, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).

January 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers are required starting February 1 to post a workplace injuries and illness summary, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).

January 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) doesn't allow a union pension plan to force a New York actuary firm to return its...

January 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A lawsuit filed in US District Court in New Jersey is alleging that several employees of Local 734 of the Laborers' International Union...

January 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Civil rights advocates are warning that a Denver federal judge's ruling that a blood bank was entitled to transfer an HIV-positive employee to...

January 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed suit against Chicago-based law firm Sidley Austin Brown & Wood over age discrimination - an...

January 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has said that medical expenses incurred in connection with a surrogate mother and an unborn child generally do...

January 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued guidelines on the income tax and self-employment tax consequences of partnership payments to partners' HSAs.

January 10, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Bush Administration on Monday released a long-awaited set of reforms to the defined benefit private-sector pension plan system including stepped up pension...

January 5, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released the corporate bond weighted average interest rate and the interest rate on 30-year Treasuries, important for...

January 5, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal district court has ordered an Indiana marketing firm to restore losses in the firm's health plan and pay unpaid health claims...

January 5, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued clarifications to its recently released guidance for nonqualified deferred compensation plans.

January 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has overturned a lower court's ruling that allowed an employee who left a company four months before it merged...

January 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US House Republicans introduced two bills Tuesday meant to improve worker training: The Job Training Improvement Act and the Worker Reemployment Accounts Act.

January 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has announced that it has added a new code - Code Z - to box 12 of the...

January 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Northwest Airlines has settled a lawsuit alleging the air carrier excluded applicants for airport ramp equipment service employee and cleaner positions if they...