Compliance

January 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and US Treasury officials are asking for help from plan sponsors and others about how best to provide guidance...

January 25, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge finally stepped in to stop the shredding of Enron-related documents by Arthur Andersen LLP.

January 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in a case over family leave policies for state workers, seeking to resolve the...

January 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Corporate benefits officials will be closely watching a US Supreme Court review of a Kentucky law giving patients access to any health care...

January 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - ERISA blocks legal claims under state law by former employees who allege their former employer breached its fiduciary responsibility by not paying them...

January 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A US Appeals Court has found an employee injured while working a side job on an independent contractor basis was not entitled to...

December 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employee benefit plans may settle legal claims for cash without violating ERISA's prohibited transaction rules.

December 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors may want to take a look at the latest incarnation of the 2003 Form 5500 along with tips from federal regulators...

December 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even in bankruptcy, companies trying to determine their unfunded pension liability are required to adhere to the US Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's (PBGC)...

December 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Mental Health Parity Act (MHPA) sunset date has been extended for a year until December 31, 2004 as a result of a...

December 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's private pension insurer has given plan sponsors in several areas of the country hit by natural disasters an extension to file...

December 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A bill signed into law by President Bush caps at 6% the amount of interest employer retirement plans and other lenders can charge...

December 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Las Vegas man who allegedly reaped about $175 million in profits from improper late trading and market timing of Alliance Capital Management...

December 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An Ontario court has determined that the Canadian government has discriminated against same-sex couples by denying pension benefits to survivors whose partners died...

December 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Benefits managers who may have questions about the workings of the new Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) may benefit from guidance from the Internal...

December 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will be requiring companies to provide more disclosure to retiring workers about their pension benefit options.

December 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The latest version of an Internal Revenue Service fringe benefits publication includes an increase in the largest benefit for qualified parking that a...

December 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Already battered by having to assume responsibility for a long line of ailing steel company pension plans, the federal pension insurer announced it...

December 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - To help mutual fund shareholders understand how to get "breakpoint" discounts, federal officials have proposed forcing fund companies to more clearly explain their...

December 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's pension insurer on Tuesday blamed $77 million in 2002 lump-sum payouts as a contributing factor to an "extraordinarily" underfunded Kaiser Aluminum...