Deferred compensations employee pension benefit plans may be required to meet various requirements under ERISA, including reporting, funding, vesting and fiduciary requirements, unless they can find ...

The guidance clarifies exclusions that prevent certain part-time employees from contributing to a plan. The U.S. Department of the Treasury and IRS this week issued guidance confirming that student ...

The operator of a small retirement plan is asking the Supreme Court to make a big change in ERISA guidelines. Having lost at the federal district court and federal appeals court levels, D.L. Markham ...

Why should financial executives at hospitals care about ERISA? The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 came about because in the mid-1960s the Studebaker automobile company went bankrupt ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit decision regarding the proper pleading standard for prohibited transaction claims brought under the Employee ...

Severance plans subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”) must satisfy certain compliance requirements, but federal law affords employers significant ...

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The Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) was enacted on Labor Day 1974 by President Gerald Ford to provide greater protection for employees participating in workplace benefit plans. More ...

Neither regulators nor courts have provided fiduciaries sufficient guidance to navigate the maze of administering ERISA accounts. It has been impossible to pick up a newspaper recently without reading ...

What Is ERISA? ERISA is a federal law enforcing minimum standards for most retirement and health plans in the private sector. Administered by the Department of Labor, It covers both defined benefit ...

Understanding the basics of an ERISA audit and its advantages can help a company mitigate the risk of costly penalties from the DOL. LONG BEACH, CA, UNITED STATES ...

A federal judge's ruling this week is likely moving Morgan Stanley and other wealth managers closer to having to pay millions in deferred compensation allegedly owed to advisors who left for other ...