Compliance

May 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Presumption of death does not warrant benefit payments to the estate of a retirement plan participant's widow, since the estate could not provide...

May 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The trustee of the employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) is the owner of the stock and therefore, payments made by a company for...

May 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal jury has ruled the dismissal of seven Hispanic and black United Parcel Service (UPS) workers was not racially motivated.

May 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Four former employees of the state of Washington's Krispy Kreme doughnut shop operator have sued, claiming they were discriminated against because they were...

May 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -Defined contribution plan fiduciaries will be expected to strictly follow the dictates of the plan document about dividing up expenses among participants, the US...

May 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Gilroy Food and the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) have reached a settlement of alleged disability discrimination.

May 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A US Senate committee has passed out a bill, which would protect individuals from discrimination in hiring, employment, and health insurance on the...

May 20, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A pension fund's state law claims for negligence against an actuary whose error in judgment resulted in the underfunding of the pension plan...

May 20, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of tire company workers has emerged victorious in its long legal battle over whether their employer lied about their future medical...

May 20, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has proposed regulations to draw a general distinction between the "deemed IRA" and the rest of the qualified plan.

May 20, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A home restoration company is not liable for the murder of a woman by a former employee.

May 20, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -Withdrawals made from plan annuity contracts to repay a default on a loan, regardless if the contracts were assigned by mutual mistake between the...

May 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Representative Gene Green (D-Texas) and 14 co-sponsors have introduced a bill in the US House of Representatives aimed at reducing the use...

May 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Proponents of a Maine state law designed to force drug companies to lower prescription drug prices for needy recipients won a narrow legal...

May 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The termination of an employee who managed the family restaurant while on leave from his other employer is not a violation of the...

May 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An inmate's pension payments deposited directly into a prison's general account for disbursement does not violate ERISA.

May 15, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Turmoil continued in France over a proposed public-employee pension reform that would cut worker benefits, even as the government tried to engage labor...

May 15, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A New York state jury ordered the Elite Model Management agency to pay $5.27 million to a former employee who charged that her...

May 15, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Caps on annual pension plan payments that maintain a plan's tax-qualified status take precedence over information to the contrary in an employer's plan...

May 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Private detective work attempting to prove the contrary was not enough for Taco Bell to convince a Louisiana Court of Appeals that an...