Compliance

February 7, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Pennsylvania appeals court has ruled that two construction workers employed by different subcontractors can't sue each other for negligence because they were...

February 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The State of Iowa may be on the hook for as much as $30 million in back overtime, now that the US Supreme...

July 2, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employee who resigned before being laid off has no standing to bring a claim for severance benefits.

July 2, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has jurisdiction over an employee's severance plan benefits claims because the plan is ERISA governed even if the employer isn't...

February 7, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A soft job market, an aging workforce, and post 09/11 tensions have contributed to the most job discrimination claims in seven years, according...

February 7, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - There are growing signs that the new retirement savings vehicles touted just a week ago by the Bush Administration will never see the...

January 31, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The House Education and Workforce Committee may be restructured into five subcommittees and another subcommittee eliminated under a proposal introduced by Chairman John...

January 31, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.COM)-A senior economist at the Federal Reserve Board of Dallas is calling for privatizing social security, but the former CEO of the Federal Retirement Thrift...

January 7, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor's Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration (PWBA) is looking for input on the development of "safe harbors" for plan administrators...

January 7, 2003, (PLANSPONSOR.com) - President Bush's economic stimulus package is likely to have some interesting consequences for plan sponsors and institutional investors.

January 7, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two prominent House Republicans say they will try again to get the Pension Security Act reform bill through both houses of the new...

January 7, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The new Republican-controlled US Senate has extended unemployment benefits for about 750,000 laid off workers.

July 1, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Small and midsized businesses using "off-the-shelf" retirement plan documents have been reminded by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that those plans need to...

July 1, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm is expected to approve legislation placing limits on how high insurers can raise premiums when employees at small firms...

June 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An insurer is still liable for employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) fiduciary breach claims, even though the insurer failed to list the plan...

June 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Internal Revenue Service officials have ruled out using the aggregate entry age normal funding method as a "reasonable" option under the Internal...

June 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Supreme Court handed an ex-Intel worker a victory in his six-year legal dispute with the technology giant over 30,000 e-mails he...

June 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has remanded a case back to the lower court to decide whether a travel accident insurance plan participant was...

June 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Allegedly terminating a Dell Computer Corp. employee on account of a disability, may lead to immediate vesting of unexercised stock options.

June 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Congressional lawmakers shelved long-simmering partisan debate over Medicare reform long enough for both houses to pass sweeping Medicare legislation giving seniors a prescription...