Compliance

November 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A change of beneficiary designation delivered after a participant's death wasn't effective, according to a federal appellate court.

November 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has published the maximum guaranteed benefits and the new payment schedule for participants of terminated single-employer pension...

November 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Congressional negotiators have reached an agreement that might prevent the Bush administration from finalizing its proposed cash balance pension rules, without taking away...

December 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Colorado man received an18 month prison sentence after being found guilty of embezzling more than $1.7 million from the International Longshoreman's Association...

November 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court will begin hearing arguments today in a case brought by younger workers claiming that taking away their post-retirement benefits...

December 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors scrambling to comply with the new minimum distribution rules for defined benefit plans got an early Christmas present from the Internal...

December 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service gave itself - and governmental plans - a bit more time in determining how to apply nondiscrimination requirements.

December 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - ERISA does not prohibit an employer insurance plan from collecting more than $50,000 mistakenly paid to a woman injured in a car accident.

November 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In an opinion prepared for a retirement industry trade group, a University of Chicago law professor asserts that legislative amendments blocking the government...

October 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has thrown out a $50,000 sexual harassment damage award after ruling that the plaintiff hadn't proven the explicit comments...

October 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Congress may have laid out general reform measures to deal with the corporate world's financial scandals, but it is up to the US...

September 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -California's Governor Gray Davis signed a sweeping family leave bill into law today, making it the first state with such a law allowing most...

September 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Minimum required distributions from qualified retirement plans are forcing seniors to take money they do not need, according to a new report.

September 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has determined that a vision impairment did not necessarily rise to the level of a disability, affording employers some...

August 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Differing views on whether plaintiffs pursuing ERISA benefits claims can also sue for punitive damages has produced a pair of dueling opinions from...

November 6, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employer did not violate the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) when it fired a worker after he took a day off...

November 5, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A measure which passed a United State Senate committee Wednesday closes a potential loophole in a 1996 insurance anti-discrimination law allowing health plans...

May 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Five law firms are among more than a dozen defendants who have agreed to shell out a total of $109 million as part...

November 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—Contrary to arguments from women and senior's groups that maintaining the current Social Security system was vital to ensuring women's financial security, a recent finding...

April 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - At issue in a case that could end up before the US Supreme Court case is whether legal claims involving employee stock ownership...