Compliance

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...

November 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana did not commit an ERISA violation by denying payment for breast reduction surgery, according to Washington-based legal...

November 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Wilmington, North Carolina medical practice has agreed to pay a former nurse $35,000 in a religious harassment case.

November 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Supreme Court justices have agreed to decide whether state government agencies such as the California Medical Board can be sued under the...

November 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has thrown out a 401(k) participant lawsuit against Providian Financial Corp., because the suit's allegations weren't specific enough to let...

June 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Freezing a pension plan is not the same as a termination, so service after the freeze can still be taken into account, according...

June 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Colorado Republican Governor Bill Owens has inked legislation allowing insurers to charge higher premiums to small employers with sicker workers.

June 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Giant retailer Wal-Mart has been hit with a federal court lawsuit alleging that the company violated ERISA by saying in its employee handbook...

June 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mutual fund investors would have access to a flood of new information on mutual fund costs and discounts, "soft-dollar" deals, and revenue-sharing arrangements...

November 30, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Court of Appeal upheld a $1.26-million judgment against Aetna US Healthcare Inc., finding the health care group broke California law by...

November 30, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal anti-discrimination law does not hold water as a legal defense in California, the California 3rd District Court of Appeal ruled in...

November 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal government has settled an age discrimination claim on behalf of former Woolworth employees, in what the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission called...

November 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors have some new guidelines from the Labor Department on how to deal with the issue of "float" charged by providers.

June 10, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal pension insurer is taking over three pension plans underfunded by about $42 million from a bankrupt Boston-based chemical and machine tool...

October 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even though federal employees are limited in the amount of workplace political activity they can have, they can still display political posters on...

October 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Giving an employee of a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corp. false information about his retirement benefits was a fiduciary duty violation under ERISA,...

October 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has handed a legal victory to three New York Daily News employees who challenged the company's move to reduce...

October 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - The U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey ruled that an employer is not in violation of ERISA Section 510 if...