'ES' Beneficiary Designation on Insurance Form Thrown Out
February 3, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has ruled that a man who entered a relationship code on...
Tag: ERISA
Staffing Agency Worker Not Entitled to Benefits
February 2, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Western District of Louisiana has ruled that a woman...
Energy Firm Cleared of Co Stock Fiduciary Breach
February 2, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Texas has cleared Reliant Energy of charges that it breached its...
Health Care Plan Administrator Cannot Limit Enrollment of Employee on Leave
February 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the District of South Dakota has ruled that a health...
Court Gives Go Ahead for Benefits Interference Case
February 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has given three former employees...
EBSA Achieves $1.7 Billion in Enforcement Actions Results
January 30, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) achieved $1.7 billion in results from actions to enforce...
PBGC Enhances Reporting and Disclosure Web Application
January 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has updated its e-4010 Web-based application for reporting financial,...
Plan Sponsor Gets Jail Term for Pension, Benefit Embezzlement
January 25, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A woman convicted of embezzling more than $17,000 from her employees' pension and benefit plans...
Participant-chosen Financial Advisor is a Plan Fiduciary
January 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DoL), in an advisory opinion letter, says that a financial advisor...
Judge Refuses to Rule on Pension Recoupment Dispute
January 12, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Ohio has thrown out worker claims that their employer should be...
Judge Gives Death Benefits to Parents
January 10, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ruling that a Massachusetts couple's marriage was over in everything but the technicalities when the...
Method of Offset for Prior Distributions Violates Anti-Cutback Rule
January 10, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Xerox Corp's method for offsetting...
Malpractice Claim Against Investment Firm not Preempted by ERISA
January 9, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the District of Nebraska has rejected the argument that employee...
Court Approves Pension Access to Pay Criminal Fines
January 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has rejected efforts by a man convicted of child pornography to...
QDRO Amended After Participant Death not Valid
January 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the District of New Jersey has determined that an amended...
Severance Denied for Employee who Resigned Before Reorg
January 4, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the District of New Jersey has ruled that an employee...
Ending Service Agreement not Interference with Benefits
January 4, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania has ruled that Independence Management...
Abbott Plaintiffs Win Class Action Certification
January 4, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of former Abbott Laboratories employees has won the right to collectively challenge their...
Disability Administrative Panel Upheld in Benefits Denial
December 29, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court panel has cleared a disability pension benefit plan's administrative committee of...
Options Program Not ERISA Governed
December 23, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Because the employer's stock option plan was not an Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)-governed...