Compliance

July 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Approximately a third of corporate financial professionals are now being asked to "subcertify" data used in Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reports, as...

July 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A company did not breach a contract with retired employees by terminating an unvested postretirement life insurance benefit.

July 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A class action suit filed by former employees that allege executive mismanagement of the company devalued the employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) does...

July 25, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Chief Financial Officer (CFO) fired by his replacement - for legitimate business reasons - 16 months before qualifying for supplemental executive retirement...

July 25, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has come up with the equivalent of a frequently asked questions list for filing the required Form 5500...

July 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Firing an employee for violating company policies prior to a scheduled layoff and subsequently refusing to pay out a previously agreed upon severance...

July 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal private pension insurer announced it intends to take over a 52%-funded pension plan for a Minnesota steel component manufacturer.

July 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US House of Representatives Workforce Protections Subcommittee has passed three bills aimed at rewarding small business good-faith efforts to comply with the...

July 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The settling of old debts from a deceased participant's employer sponsored health plan has a statue of limitations; that once expired, bar the...

July 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has shot down Circuit City's mandatory arbitration contract for the third time in 18 months.

July 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Health plans are under no obligation under Washington state law to cover every US Food and Drug Administration-approved prescription contraceptive, the state's high...

July 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Never being billed, combined with no indication that a participant would ever be billed, leads to a participant's lawsuit for unpaid medical bills...

July 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The House Ways and Means Committee passed the proposed Portman-Cardin bill on Friday, but it wasn't pretty - and it may not "take."

July 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The late introduction of a substitute amendment for pension reform touched off a firestorm in the House Friday - but what was in...

July 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A retirement plan's summary plan description (SPD) violated ERISA disclosure requirements when it failed to divulge the need to file an affidavit for...

July 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal pension insurer is waiving certain penalties and extending certain deadlines for filing the required annual Form 5500 for employers in several...

July 18, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has a message for plan sponsors: Don't include any information on your Form 5500 about fringe benefit plans...

July 18, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The "ayes" had it in the US House of Representatives Ways & Means Committee voice vote to send the Pension Preservation and Savings...

July 18, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed a lawsuit against regional commuter airline Trans States Airlines, Inc. alleging the company discriminated...

July 18, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A woman who sued her employer for not keeping up her COBRA health insurance coverage even though she sent in the required payments...