Compliance

November 3, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has ruled that top executives were responsible for what their subordinates were or were not doing in a case of...

November 1, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A US District Court has ruled that a plan insurer is not bound by misstatements made by the plan sponsor regarding coverage in...

January 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Eastman Kodak Co. has been ordered to give back $9.6 million, plus interest, to the federal government for improperly billing pension costs to...

January 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A health maintenance organization (HMO) that charges prescription drug copayments higher than its costs doesn't violate the terms of its plans or breach...

January 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has reached a deal with Burlington, Ontario-based Laidlaw Inc to strengthen seven pension plans sponsored by its...

January 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration (PWBA) has approved final rules implementing a new federal law requiring 401(k) plans to give workers 30-day...

October 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An obese participant in a union-run health plan lost another legal fight in his battle to get health-care coverage for his gastric bypass...

October 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that former common-law spouses cannot collect survivor pension benefits, unlike their married-but-separated counterparts.

October 28, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has ruled that a deferred compensation plan's administrative committee can be named as a defendant in a suit regarding a...

October 26, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Golden State plan sponsors will need to be aware of the effects of a new state law that will require all group health...

October 26, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), an HR professionals' trade group, has publicly given its kudos to President Bush for signing into...

October 26, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) now offers Spanish speakers their own version of the agency's Web site.

October 26, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In an extremely significant development affecting the investment community, a badly divided US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has ordered hedge fund managers...

October 25, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has ruled that a man whose toe was amputated due to diabetic complications cannot receive benefits from his company's Employee...

October 25, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - NASD has announced that it has fined Citigroup Global Markets $250,000 for distributing inappropriate sales literature regarding its hedge fund sales through its...

October 25, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US House of Representatives has approved a committee's compromise language on the American Jobs Creation Act tax bill, and the bill will...

October 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by a woman who charged her employer didn't properly inform her of her continuing health care...

October 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Massachusetts federal judge has ordered an employer to offer a fired employee the chance to choose continuing health care coverage and awarded...

October 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new lawsuit has alleged that more than 1,200 former Spartan International employees lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in retirement savings and...

October 21, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), an insurer of private sector defined benefit retirement plans, has announced that it will assume responsibility for...