Labor & Employment Law

IRS Rings in the New Year with New Cash Balance Regs and DB Lump Sum Regs
Just in time for the New Year, the IRS has released two major pieces of guidance in the form of proposed regulations. The first is Proposed Regulations on Hybrid Plans, providing guidance on changes made to cash balance plans by the Pension Protection Act and recent litigation...

IRS Issues a Correction to the Proposed Cash Balance Regs
The IRS issued a correction to the Proposed Regulations on Hybrid Retirement Plans, commonly known as the proposed cash balance plan regulations, which the Service issued on December 27, 2007...

How Now Cash Cow
"Cash Now Pusher" Stone Street Capital's New Tag Line is "Cash Now From the Cash Cow" Which Begs A Question that starts a new poem "HOW NOW CASH COW? CASH NOW OH WOW! CASH COW KNOW NOW! CASH COW IS...

In cases governed by version of ERISA law that precedes Congress's 2005 amendments, Second Circuit holds that cash balance defined benefit plans do not inherently result in an unlawful age-based reduction in the rate of benefit accrual
In cases governed by version of ERISA law that precedes Congress's 2005 amendments, Second Circuit holds that cash balance defined benefit plans do not inherently result in an unlawful age-based reduction in the rate of benefit accrual: You can access today's ruling of the U...

Decision in Cash Balance Conversion Case May Have Missed the Boat
The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals has delivered a very interesting opinion involving a grab bag of cash balance conversion issues. In Gillis v. SPX Corp. Individual Acct Retirement Plan, No...

Dancing Annuities
Prosperity Partners suggests that "you can start dancing when you discover it's possible to get cash for an annuity", and "if you don't use all the cash", they tell you to "keep dancing by putting the balance in your savings...

Pre-paid Leagal Services
What are Prepaid Legal Benefit Plans

WaMu Cash Balance Pension Plan - Partial Preliminary Settlement
WaMu Cash Balance Pension Plan Partial Preliminary Settlement

T-mobile data plans, T-mobile, t-mobile phones
T-Mobile Faces Class Action over Limited Unlimited Data Plans

Meta Financial Group, Inc CASH Securities Fraud
Meta Financial Group, Inc CASH

Retirement Plans
Teacher group to pay $375,000 settlement in investments lawsuit.

Ford Focus
Consumer Class Action Settles for Cash Refunds

Brown Greer et al.
alleging that the six law firms handling the Vioxx settlement failed to provide money for reimbursements to lien rights of Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) health plans.