Compliance

June 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - No one could have ever called Frank Kinney Jr. a slacker when he was a New Haven (Connecticut) Superior Court jurist.

June 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is petitioning a federal appeals court to reinstate an employment discrimination suit against Southern Company...

June 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal court in Iowa has personal jurisdiction over a California-based health plan participant sued by his Iowa-administered health plan.

June 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The widow of an employer-sponsored life insurance plan lost her bid for $100,000 in insurance benefits because the plan participant called in sick...

June 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Approximately 100,000 women across Ontario, Canada will receive C$414 million in pay equity funding from the Ontario Government.

June 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lawyers in California now have another potential weapon in their fight against employment discrimination as a result of a state appeals court ruling...

June 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former postal worker should have been granted Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) leave to care for her daughter, who had a...

June 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employer-sponsored retirement plan or other type of lender can't charge borrowers on military leave more than 6% interest, under a bill approved...

June 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Legislation has been introduced in both the United States House of Representatives and Senate offering domestic partners of federal employees the same protections...

June 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A hospital's state law claim alleging a health plan negligently represented that it would provide coverage for a plan participant's medical care is...

June 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Representative Dave Weldon (R-Florida) has introduced HR 2439 to repeal the 1993 Social Security tax increase and postpone the required distribution age...

June 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Workers who take pension benefits in an annuity would be allowed to shield $3,000 of that money from federal income tax under a...

June 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - ERISA's anti-alienation provision doesn't shield a participant whose only assets are in a pension fund from having to make court-ordered restitution, according to...

June 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A move by a New Orleans-area supermarket company to drop its grocery voucher program for retirees violated ERISA because the voucher program was...

June 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A company may have had an illegal clause in a waiver of rights release agreement prohibiting an older worker from filing a federal...

June 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A North Carolina state worker organization on Friday won the chance to make its case to a state appeals court that Governor Mike...

June 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A bill that would make it easier for small companies to buy employee health care coverage has gotten past a US House of...

December 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The practice of holding ESOP stock shares in shell S corporations that don't benefit participants shouldn't get a delay in implementing new rules...

December 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) does not preempt a Texas law calling for independent review of health maintenance organizations...

December 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A financial services industry group is battling a recent ruling by the North Carolina state bar that many standard retirement plan services actually...