Tag: ERISA

September 5, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With ever-increasing law firm billing rates, it may be tempting to forego retaining an employee...

September 5, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Participants of retirement plans sponsored by Acme Building Brands Inc., a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway...

August 29, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – September 2nd marks 40 years since the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) became law,...

August 29, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Forty years ago on September 2, in response to failing companies resulting in workers losing...

August 28, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The owner of a Maryland electrical contracting company pleaded guilty to falsifying plan documents to...

August 27, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. Solicitor General has filed a brief asking the United States Supreme Court to...

August 22, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – An employer that participated in a multiemployer pension plan cannot sue plan trustees regarding the...

August 22, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - On June 25, 2014, the Supreme Court of the United States made its first ruling...

August 20, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A court has dismissed a claim that a company violated federal law by not sending...

August 19, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Attorneys representing Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) have requested that a federal court hear oral arguments...

August 18, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – This September will mark 40 years since the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) was...

August 14, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Current conditions in the retirement benefits arena make in-plan lifetime income solutions a difficult proposition...

August 12, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal court has found a wealth accumulation plan (WAP) offered to executives of RBC...

August 8, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Charles David Snyder, fiduciary to the Cleveland-based Attevo 401(k) retirement plan, has been ordered by...

August 7, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal appellate court has determined that certain participants of Anheuser-Busch’s pension plan are due...

August 7, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A lower court applied the wrong standard when determining that R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (RJR)...

August 1, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will host a defined benefit plan termination webinar on August 14...

July 31, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A survey of sponsors of many different types of defined contribution (DC) retirement plans finds...

July 25, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal district court in California has granted a motion for partial summary judgment against...

July 25, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Two court cases filed this week by retirement plan participants claim their employers’ retirement benefits...