Labor & Employment Law

New GAO Reports: Defined Benefit Pensions, Human Capital - Performance-Based Pay Systems
Defined Benefit Pensions: Plan Freezes Affect Millions of Participants and May Pose Retirement Income Challenges, GAO-08-817, July 21, 2008 Human...

What Do People Think About Public Pensions?
A study examining the public?s perception of defined benefit vis à vis defined contribution plans -- entitled ?The New Intersection on the Road to Retirement: Public Pensions, Economics, Perceptions, Politics & Interest Groups? -- was recently presented at the Wharton...

Actuarial Assumptions and Problem Pensions
Maybe, rather than three, there are actually four kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, statistics, and actuarial assumptions relied upon for public pensions...

ASK AND YE SHALL, MAKE THAT MAY, RECEIVE
The Indiana State Senate Tax Policy Committee unanimously approved property tax reform legislation this morning...

Gurkhas lose High Court battle over pensions
Former Gurkha soldiers today lost their High Court battle over a pensions deal with the Ministry of Defence, which they say has left them struggling to live.

?Argentina grants gay couples partner pensions?
CNN reports: In a nationwide measure, Argentina has granted gay couples the right to collect the pensions of their dead partners...

Child Support
Finding the Noncustodial Parent ( Deadbeat Dads )

Dumb New York Laws
Stupid Laws in the Empire State

Military Veterans Benefits, Part 3
Other Benefits

Pre-paid Leagal Services
What are Prepaid Legal Benefit Plans

How to evict a roommate?
First, in most jurisdictions "self-help" is not a remedy available to any party ...

I feel everyone should be treated equal in this world, but in a lot of cases that doesn't happen. I live in a white community with only 2 to 3 African American families. I belong to one of them. A week after getting into
I would call the courthouse and ask for the judges assistant, and ask them why t...

How to learn content of deceased parent's will?
go to the court house where your father died or the county he lived in. It is pu...

What role does financial means determine which parent gains custody?
was(am) a single male that gained custody of my daughter when she was three. Thi...

I had an account with GEMB/Select Comfort to buy a new bed back in 2005. After paying it off (in 2006), I requested they close the account. In January of 2008, I declared bankruptcy (chapter 7). The creditor was NOT list
if you did pay it off before the bankruptcy and it wasn't listed as a accou...

Institutionalized Medicaid Recipients
Sue For Right To Choose Where They Live

Lipitor
Review of Studies Show No Significant Benefit in Women

Microsoft Corp.
allegedly failed to provide adequate access and service to Xbox Live and its subscribers.

Unclaimed $14 Million Settlement
Ohio Charities to Benefit

Pesticides
Long-Term Exposure Linked to Diabetes

Long-Term Insurance Suit
Settled for $15 Million