Compliance

December 6, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Labor Department says it plans to weigh in with its own investigation of the Enron case ? focusing on questions about...

December 6, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a report that examines the impact of Regulation FD on the market, and recommends ways...

December 18, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Some 36,500 TWA workers and retirees will find their pension benefits in the hands of the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation (PBGC), following Carl...

December 6, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Supreme Court justices will use a lawsuit filed by a US Airways employee to decide whether the airline can exempt a disabled...

November 6, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Retirement Security Advice Bill (HR 2269), sponsored by Representative John Boehner (R - Ohio), is slated for mark up by the House...

November 6, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - Both the Commerce Secretary and the Treasury Secretary have now joined the Department of Labor in endorsing a bill that would attempt to broaden...

November 6, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Issuing deliberately vague guidelines, the Internal Revenue Service announced that employers are permitted to deliver their 2001 W-2 forms via e-mail.

November 06, 2001 - Plan sponsors offering flagging company stock might be hit with participant lawsuits, a lawyer warns.

September 18, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Acting Assistant Secretary of Labor Leslie Kramerich says recent attempts to lower restrictions on offering investment advice to plan participants are not needed,...

August 6, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mitsubishi once again finds itself under fire for behaviors at its plant in Normal, Illinois. This time five former supervisors have charged that...

July 6, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Treasury and the IRS are looking for some help in figuring out how best to tax financial instruments -- with implications...

July 6, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -The Internal Revenue Service has published draft revisions of determination letter application forms on the Employee Plans Corner section of its Web site.

June 6, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The State Employees Association of North Carolina (SEANC) will appeal Judge Narley Cashwell's dismissal of its lawsuit challenging Governor Mike Easley's use of...

April 6, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Reps. Portman (R-OH) and Cardin (D-MD) made another stop on their pension reform promotion "tour" yesterday, testifying before the House Education and the...

April 18, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In the largest 401(k) class action ever, Sprenger & Lang, PLLC has joined with two other class action litigation firms in bringing a...

March 6, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court has declined to consider an appellate court ruling that employee benefit plans that treat retirees differently based on their...

November 26, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - John Hancock Financial Services says it will appeal last week's federal court award of more than $19.5 million to the Unisys Trust arising...

November 5, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - The final 2001 meeting of the Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans will be held on November 14.

November 5, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) ? A plan administrator acted improperly in determining that workers that took an early retirement offer were precluded from also pursuing claims for severance...

November 5, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Senate version of a mental health parity amendment is likely to increase costs - and decrease coverage of mental health treatments, according...