Compliance

August 1, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -Employees of a Washington state company have won a nearly $2-million settlement of an ERISA lawsuit against their employer for selling a "diversified" portfolio...

August 1, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - ERISA does not completely preempt a participant's state law medical malpractice claim involving mixed eligibility and treatment decisions.

July 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A lawsuit accusing American Skandia Life Assurance Corp. of misleading investors about the appropriateness of tax-deferred variable annuities for retirement plans has been...

July 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Big Blue got a black eye from a federal judge today, who ruled that IBM's pension plan conversion and operating assumptions violated age...

July 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - California's domestic partnership registration law does not preempt a San Francisco ordinance requiring city contractors to provide nondiscriminatory benefits to employees with registered...

July 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even though ERISA did not completely preempt wrongful discharge claims by a former employee, a federal appeals court found ERISA provisions still do...

July 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSPOR.com) - A Georgia firefighter suspended in an alleged violation of the First Amendment has petitioned the United States Supreme Court to hear his case.

July 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSPOR.com) - A Georgia firefighter suspended in an alleged violation of the First Amendment has petitioned the United States Supreme Court to hear his case.

July 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - States should have the right to regulate medical necessity treatment decisions made by health maintenance organizations as a "core power" without it being...

July 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former employee doesn't deserve benefits under a special severance plan designed to trigger in the event of a "change in control," if...

July 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm has inked the last of five bills intended to reform the small business health insurance market through stabilizing costs...

July 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Trustees for the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) are battening down the hatches in anticipation of a maelstrom of legal challenges to the...

July 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A South Carolina doctors' group has asked the US Supreme Court to review a federal appeals court ruling that Congress didn't give away...

July 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has taken retailer Kmart Corp. to court with allegations the company turned away a mentally disabled...

July 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Preservation and Savings Expansion Act will have to wait until after the August congressional recess to learn its fate.

July 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A plan participant who filed a fiduciary breach suit against a financial advisor isn't bound by a mandatory arbitration provision of an agreement...

July 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Approximately a third of corporate financial professionals are now being asked to "subcertify" data used in Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reports, as...

July 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A company did not breach a contract with retired employees by terminating an unvested postretirement life insurance benefit.

July 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A class action suit filed by former employees that allege executive mismanagement of the company devalued the employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) does...

July 25, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Chief Financial Officer (CFO) fired by his replacement - for legitimate business reasons - 16 months before qualifying for supplemental executive retirement...