Compliance

March 11, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A House subcommittee has scheduled hearings this week on federal and state laws governing the provision of mental health coverage in employee health-care...

March 11, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The IRS has not yet issued February's 30-year Treasury bond rate, which sponsors of defined benefit plans, and their actuaries use to calculate...

February 11, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Wal-Mart Stores has agreed to settle an employee lawsuit with, among other things, a payment of $140,000 to the plaintiff and community groups,...

February 23, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission may delay a new rule that would require markets and brokers to report on the quality of their...

February 11, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Labor Department wants to replace Enron executives on the administrative committee that oversees the firm's retirement plans, according to published reports.

January 11, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a decision split along ideological lines, the US Supreme Court has barred the reimbursement of health benefit costs from a subsequent tort...

January 23, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider if a health insurance plan can sue under ERISA for a recovery of benefits paid...

December 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Today the Treasury Department is expected to provide some clarity on the acceptable mechanics for cash balance conversions - and the final result...

December 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers who sponsor benefit plans will get an added reminder from the 2002 version of the Form 5500 series disclosure documents to sign...

December 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With a federal judge's order approving a nearly $300-million settlement in a series of lawsuits involving allegations against a now-defunct Oregon investment firm,...

December 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com)- The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service have released new proposed regulations on the application of the pension plan age discrimination rules to cash...

December 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Maryland Citizens Health Initiative has proposed a plan to provide health coverage to the state's uninsured residents, according to a Baltimore Sun...

December 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While representatives of financial services industry groups hadn't yet had time to study 75 pages of proposed cash balance regulations, they gave government...

October 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of current and former Federal Reserve employees lost their first legal battle in their attempts to force the central banker from...

October 22, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -Lawyers for a 59-year-old African American man, who won $100,000 in damages in a federal court age discrimination lawsuit against a car dealership, have...

October 22, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A patients' bill of rights is now a reality in North Carolina.

September 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal anti-discrimination agency has gone to court on behalf of a diabetic United Parcel Service (UPS) delivery driver who it says was...

September 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The year may be flying by, but governmental plan sponsors still have a lot to look forward to, according to an Internal Revenue...

September 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While time is running out for the 2002 legislative session in Congress, plan sponsors may yet get some new pension reform proposals.

September 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The latest WorldCom lawsuit on the horizon from New York law firm Parker & Waichman alleges the one-time telecommunications giant lied to its...