Compliance

September 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Doctors claiming they have been cheated out of the fees they are owed have been awarded class action status in their Racketeer Influenced...

September 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is set to recommend hedge fund registration, opening the door to SEC oversight.

September 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employees should not be taxed for expenses incurred during an annual company fishing trip that was part of the regular course of business.

September 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal officials are giving companies that took the brunt of Hurricane Isabel's fury more time to file their Form 5500 paperwork.

September 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Providing an inaccurate projection of pension benefits - even over a number of years - did not constitute a fiduciary breach, according to...

September 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ruling in a case involving a death benefits claim by a common-law spouse, a Pennsylvania appeals court has thrown out the legal doctrine...

September 18, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The United States Senate Finance Committee has given unanimous approval to Chairman Charles Grassley's (R-Iowa) pension reform legislation.

September 18, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Tacked onto the recent passage of a US Senate retirement reform bill was a requirement for companies to pay taxes on death benefits...

September 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A prominent Republican Congressman has proposed a temporary patch for the problems created by the effective demise of the 30-year Treasury bond benchmark.

September 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An amendment made to a retiree medical benefit plan to exclude workers younger than 50 years of age was not in violation of...

September 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Allstate Insurance Co. has asked a Philadelphia federal judge to dismiss the current age discrimination suit pending against the company.

September 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court apparently won't get the chance to dig its legal teeth into a meaty ERISA pre-emption controversy that has been...

September 15, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal jury determined former Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) vice president Walid Maghribi was not forced to quit after his bosses questioned...

September 15, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Bush administration still has pension reform on its radar screen, including a push to limit increased benefit committments from underfunded pension plans,...

September 15, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A US Senate Republican plans to introduce a bill that would require defined benefit pension plans to base their funding on a yield...

September 15, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has sentenced to prison the former president of a Fort Worth aviation services company for stealing $107,122 from the firm's...

September 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the US Treasury Department have issued TD 9092 providing the final regulations on tax treatments for split-dollar...

September 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors can satisfy their 404(c) fiduciary responsibilities to provide 401(k) participants with investment information through summary "profile" prospectuses rather than the more...

September 10, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A divided three-judge panel has given the green light to a diabetic's lawsuit against U.S. Bancorp's decision not to allow her to eat...

September 10, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - If President Bush's amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) white-collar exemption tests is going to be approved, he is going to...