Compliance

April 13, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Following hard on the heels of President Bush's signature on the closely followed pension funding bill, the U.S. Treasury Department and the Internal...

April 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - On Saturday President Bush signed into law a pension relief bill that will allow many plan sponsors to avoid or reduce funding contributions...

April 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Senator John Breaux (D - Louisiana) has introduced legislation aimed at making employee stock ownerships plans (ESOP) a more attractive option for employers...

April 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. Senator Charles Grassley (R - Iowa) has introduced legislation making the reimportation of prescription drugs from Canada legal for United States-based consumers.

April 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Time limits governing how long employees have to file benefits claims suits under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) should be governed...

April 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors have a new resource to peruse for information about Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) from the U.S. Treasury Department.

April 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A third-party administrator (TPA) for a Tennessee self-funded group health plan can be held liable for a Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)...

April 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - If federal officials don't respond to a state of Illinois request to be allowed to reimport cheaper prescription drugs from Canada within six...

April 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Having weathered one immediate plan sponsor issue - pension relief - the U.S. Senate now appears ready to step back and focus on...

April 8, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The closely watched pension funding bill ploughed through the United States Senate Thursday with a strong 78 to 19 vote to approve the...

April 8, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has upheld a $35,050 penalty assessed against a retirement plan that didn't respond to a beneficiary's request for plan...

August 28, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State Treasurer Barbara Hafer says Pennsylvania's state pension funds are in good shape - but she's not as certain about the status of...

April 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal officials on Wednesday put out some guidance on the new Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), including the extent to which they will be...

April 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The pension funding bill winding its way through Congress got a boost in the United State Senate when the leading Democrat said he...

April 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - What may be good for public policy does not necessarily translate to enforceable contract law, meaning a company president fired for sexual harassment...

June 28, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Florida beverage distributor hired an outside vendor to send mandatory notices to former employees about receiving continuing medical coverage, however, an appeals...

June 28, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In what has been heralded as the biggest change in Medicare since the program's inception in 1965, the House of Representatives passed the...

June 28, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Metropolitan Life Insurance Company should be held liable for claims by a female employee that she had to submit to her supervisor's sexual...

June 28, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An administrative assistant at a New York law firm no longer had standing to sue his former employer after getting a lump-sum pension...

May 28, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Georgia dental hygienist fired after being diagnosed as HIV-positive has lost his bid to have his lawsuit reviewed by the US Supreme...