Compliance

April 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A coalition of patient groups and privacy supporters is trying to block a new federal health privacy law from taking effect next week...

April 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Tobacco companies were not accountable for the increased costs of healthcare expenses due to smoking habits of other healthcare participants.

April 10, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Workers at Mercedes-Benz' Vance, Alabama plant will be paid $687,588 in back wages associated with time spent changing uniforms over the past two...

April 10, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lutheran Medical Center has agreed to pay $5.4 million as part of an out-of-court settlement of a sexual harassment lawsuit over allegations a...

October 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A New York employer that loaned all its profit-sharing plan assets to a currency exchange has been forced to make the plan whole...

October 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has turned aside efforts by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) to block the United Steelworkers of America from getting...

September 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An Oklahoma City law firm is the latest to sue WorldCom over allegations the former telecommunications giant violated ERISA by the way it...

April 9, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A plan administrator's actions in filing a complaint of possible insurance fraud with the local police regarding a participant's long-term disability claim are...

April 9, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) is recommending Congress tighten current tax laws that allow corporate executives to obfuscate their income from taxes without consequence.

April 9, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US House of Representatives Education & the Workforce Committee approved the Family Time Flexibility Act (HR 1119), that would allow private sector...

April 9, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Proposed pension regulations that include a new interpretation of age discrimination would invalidate more than two thirds of the defined benefit plans sponsored...

September 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DOL) on Friday threw its support behind legislation that would establish federally regulated Association Health Plans (AHPs), making health...

April 8, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors have some guidance in determining whether an employee welfare benefit plan is collectively bargained, and thus exempt from state regulation of...

April 8, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -The American Benefits Council has submitted a report to the Senate Finance Committee explaining the importance of nonqualified deferred compensation plans to the workforce.

April 8, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Representatives Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and George Miller (D-California) have introduced legislation designed to "protect employees' pensions from unfair rules."

August 28, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A suit seeking class action status has been filed against Credit Suisse First Boston Corp. on behalf of clerical workers who charge that...

August 23, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The firms presenting the ten largest claims have accounted for more than half of all claims against the nation's pension insurance system over...

August 28, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A US Airways Group stockholder is suing airline executives for approving $45 million in severance benefits to three executives.

August 28, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has ordered the owner of a number of Waffle House franchises to pay 125 current and former managers about $2.9...

August 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has released a new handbook to help employers deal with the provisions of the Americans with...