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National Recycling Institute's
Profit Sharing Plan Ordered to Be Terminated and
Assets Distributed to Participants [12/31/01]
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Miami Law Firm Must Restore
$135,233 To Profit Sharing Plan [12/28/01]
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U.S. Department of Labor Sues Pennsylvania
Trucking Company and Executives [12/27/01]
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U.S. Department of Labor Judgment
Establishes "Premium Holiday" for Premark's
Supplemental Life Insurance Plan Participants [12/27/01]
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Statement of Assistant Secretary Ann L.
Combs Regarding SunAmerica Advisory Opinion [12/19/01]
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U.S. Department of Labor Recoups $325,000
For Louisville, Kentucky, ESOP [12/19/01]
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U.S. Department of Labor Publishes Year
2001 Form M-1 For Multiple Employer Welfare Arrangements [12/19/01]
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Chicago Court Orders Trustee To Distribute
401(k) Assets Of Primary Resources, Inc.[12/18/01]
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U.S. Department of Labor Sues Trustee And
Others For Diverting More Than $2.2 Million Of New York Health And
Welfare Plan [12/18/01]
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PWBA Answers Frequently Asked Questions On
Claims Regulation [12/17/01]
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U.S. Department of Labor Sues Nevada
Associations and Principals for Misusing Over $6 Million in
Health Assets [12/13/01]
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U.S. Department of Labor Sues Trustee For
Failure To Remit Employees' Contributions To Wisconsin 401(K)
[12/13/01]
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U.S. Department of Labor Extends Comment
Period Two Weeks for Pending Exemptions [12/12/01]
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Labor Opens ERISA
Investigation of Enron - Assistance to Dislocated Workers Also
Begins Today [12/05/01]
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U.S. Department of Labor Sues Illinois
Company and Owner Over Misuse of Pension Assets [12/04/01]
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U.S. Department of Labor Seeks Trustee for
Orphaned Kendallville Castings Pension Plans [12/04/01]
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Trustees Ordered To Restore $65,297 To
Michigan 401(k) Plan Of Engineering Firm [11/28/01]
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U.S. Department of Labor Sues Former
Gateway Data Sciences Officers For Misusing Retirement Plan
Assets [11/23/01]
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Alabama Pharmaceutical Companies And
President Ordered To Restore $29,974 In Pension Assets [11/23/01]
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Labor Secretary Elaine L.
Chao: First Step
Complete On Improving Retirement Security - Encourages Increased Freedom To Manage Savings
[11/15/01]
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Atlanta Dentists to Repay $92,979 to Profit
Sharing Plan [11/08/01]
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U.S. Department of Labor Recovers Assets
For North Carolina Pension Participants [11/07/01]
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ERISA Advisory Council, Working Groups To
Hold Final Meetings Of The Year On November 13 And 14 [11/05/01]
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U.S. Department of Labor Settles With A
Software Company And Its Former Executives For Federal Pension
Violations [10/30/01]
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DWP Trucking Pension Plan Trustee
Being Sued for Restitution [10/29/01]
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Secretary Chao Announces Date Of Saver
Summit 2002 Event Will Provide Expertise, Encourage Americans
To Save [10/25/01]
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Court Appoints Manager Of 'Orphaned' 401(k)
Plan [10/25/01]
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U.S. Department of Labor Recovers Funds For
Schenectady Employee Benefit Plans [10/17/01]
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U.S. Department of Labor Recovers $4.95
Million For Electrical Workers Pension Fund [10/16/01]
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Advice Available for Those Facing Loss of
Health Benefits U.S. Department of Labor Answers Questions,
Provides Options for Continuing Coverage [10/12/01]
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Labor Department Files Suit to Aid
‘Orphaned' 401(k) Plan Participants [10/09/01]
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Owners of Home Health Care Agency Resolve
Suit over Pension Plan [10/05/01]
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U.S. Department of Labor Sues Alabama
Association And Plan Official For $4.15 Million In Fees,
Commissions And Loans [10/04/01]
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U.S. Department of Labor Recovers Benefits
And Wages for New York Whistleblower [10/01/01]
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Illinois Firms and Owner Ordered to Repay
$15,000 To 401(k) Plans under U.S. Department of Labor Consent
Judgment [10/01/01]
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U.S. Department of Labor Proposes Exemption
Relief Allowing Plan Loans And Extensions Of Credit Necessary
After Terrorist Attacks [09/26/01]
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U.S. Department of Labor Judgment Orders
GMR Plastics And Owner To Repay Pension Plan [09/17/01]
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CPA Appointed To Manage Retirement Accounts
Of Defunct Illinois Company [09/17/01]
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U.S. Department Of Labor Extends Deadline
For Employee Benefit Plan Filings And Provides Other ERISA
Compliance Guidance [09/14/01]
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Colorado Plan Trustee Sued For Failure To
Secure Pension Assets [09/12/01]
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Minnesota Auto Dealership And Executives
Must Restore $145,000 To Company Profit Sharing Plan [09/05/01]
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U.S. Department of Labor Settles Lawsuit
With Tennessee Plan Over Erisa Violations [08/30/01]
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Iowa Automobile Dealers Ordered To Pay
Trust Fund $291,667 As Result Of U.S. Department of Labor
Lawsuit [08/23/01]
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Youngstown Plan Trustee Charged With ERISA
Violation [08/23/01]
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Maryland Court Stops Pension Reimbursement
To Company For Past Plan Expenses [08/22/01]
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U.S. Department of Labor
Settles Lawsuit with Food Product Operators For Failing to Pay
Health Plan Claim [08/10/01]
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U.S. Department of Labor Solicits
Nominations For Employee Benefits Advisory Council [08/10/01]
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Lascola Ordered to Repay $1.279 Million To
Electrical Workers' Pension Plan [08/07/01]
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U.S. Department of Labor Recovers Pension
Assets For Colorado Plan Participants [08/01/01]
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CFO of Delaware Corporation Avcon, Inc.,
Ordered to Pay Restitution [07/30/01]
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Salt Lake Man Repays $100,000 To Employee
Retirement Plan [07/30/01]
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U.S. Department of Labor Sues Defunct New York Investment Firm, Owner over Excessive Plan Trades [07/24/01]
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U.S. Department of Labor Testifies on
Legislation To Expand Access to Investment Advice [07/17/01]
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U.S. Department of Labor Recovers Over
$122,000 For Columbus, Ohio Pension Participants [07/13/01]
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U.S. Department of Labor Sues Wisconsin
Trustee Over Misuse of Profit-sharing Assets [07/12/01]
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U.S. Department of Labor Obtains Court
Order Freezing Assets of Several New York Health Providers [07/12/01]
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PWBA Extends Date for Group Health Plans To
Comply with Claims Procedure Requirements [07/06/01]
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Silicon Valley Workers Regain Control Of
Abandoned Profit Sharing Fund - U.S. Department of Labor
Judgment Replaces Absent 401(k) Plan Administrator [07/02/01]
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HIPAA and Other Health Laws: Compliance
Assistance Seminar [07/02/01]
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Pennsylvania Physician And Wife Ordered To
Make Restitution For Embezzling Pension Plan Assets [07/02/01]
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ERISA Advisory Council Working Groups to
Hold July 17 and 18 Meetings [06/28/01]
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U.S. Department of Labor Sues North
Carolina Corporation And Trustees for Misusing Pension and
Health Assets [06/27/01]
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Reston, Virginia Trustees Sued For Failure
To Remit Employees' 401(k) Contributions And Loan Payments [06/26/01]
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Former Pennsylvania Man Sentenced For
Embezzling Pension Plan Assets [06/26/01]
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Media Advisory - HIPAA And Other Health
Laws: Compliance Assistance Seminar [06/11/01]
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U.S. Department of Labor Sues Virginia
Pension Officials For Abandoning 401(k) Plan [06/08/01]
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Labor Department Sues New York Trustee Over Misuse Of
401(k) Assets [06/08/01]
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Dorchester, Massachusetts, Employer Agrees
To Return $650,000 To Employee Benefit Plans As The Result Of
U.S. Department of Labor Lawsuit [06/07/01]
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U.S. Department of Labor Sues Board of
Trustees of Rhode Island Electrical Workers Union Health Plan
to Recover Improper Benefit Payments [06/05/01]
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Labor Department Recovers Over
$300,000 For Youngstown, Ohio Corporate Profit Sharing Plan [06/01/01]
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Norwood, Massachusetts, Employers Enjoined
From Future Violations of Federal Pension Protection Law;
Barred For Ten Years From Dealing with Pension Or Benefit
Plans [05/24/01]
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New Jersey Court Appoints Independent
Fiduciary To Manage Abandoned Washington, D.C. Pension Plan [05/17/01]
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ERISA Advisory Council, Working Groups to
Hold June Meetings [05/15/01]
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Maryland Trustees Are Removed From Serving
An ERISA Plan Under Consent Judgments [05/14/01]
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Labor Department Sues New Jersey
Bakery Firm And Executive Over Misuse Of Health Plan [05/08/01]
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Court Bars Mclaughlin, Companies from
Benefit Plan Administration Defunct Plan Provided Health
Benefits and Insurance to 3,000 Central Valley Teamsters [05/08/01]
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U.S. Department of Labor's Consent
Judgement Orders Pension Plan Sponsor To Resume Duties And Pay
Participants [05/04/01]
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Woburn, Massachusetts, Employers Ordered To
Restore Employee 401(k) Plan Funds [05/03/01]
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Oak Brook, Illinois Pension Plan Trustee
Sued Over Failure To Pay Participants Their Account Balances [04/25/01]
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U.S. Department of Labor Sues New Jersey
Bakery Firm And Executives Over Misuse Of 401(k) Plan [04/23/01]
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U.S. Department of Labor Files Suit Against
a Software Company and its Former Executives for Federal
Pension Violations [04/18/01]
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U.S. Department of Labor Participates In
Seventh Annual Employee Benefits Outreach Program [04/17/01]
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Houston Company And Pension Trustee Sued
For Misusing Over $238,000 In Plan Assets [04/06/01]
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Pension Officials To Make Restitution To
Illinois Pension Plan [04/03/01]
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U.S. Department of Labor Sues Chicago
Corporation and Trustee For Misuse of Pension Assets [04/02/01]
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Morsches Lumber Agrees To Settle U.S.
Department of Labor Lawsuit Over Pension Plan Violations [03/30/01]
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U.S. Department of Labor Settles Lawsuit
With Snyder Farm Supply And Pension Plan Trustee [03/29/01]
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Colorado Plan Trustees Ordered to Repay
Participants And Disband 401(k) Plan [03/28/01]
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U.S. Department of Labor Sues Missouri
Trustee And Corporate Officers Over Misuse Of 401(k) Assets [03/27/01]
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Minnesota Automobile Dealership And
Executives Sued Over $240,500 In Improper Profit Sharing Plan
Loans [03/26/01]
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Manchester, New Hampshire, Employers Return
Nearly $500,000 To Employee Benefit Plan According To U.S.
U.S. Department of Labor Law Suit [03/23/01]
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ERISA Advisory Council Selects Study Topics
[03/22/01]
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U.S. Department of Labor Alleges GMR
Plastics Failed To Forward Employee Contributions To Pension
Plan [03/09/01]
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Federal Court Orders Changes In Management
Of Ohio Teamsters Plans [03/08/01]
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U.S. Department of Labor Files Suit Against
Delaware Corporation and its CFO for Pension Violations [03/01/01]
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Labor Department Establishes
Toll-free Number to Help Form 5500 Filers [02/26/01]
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Labor Department Announces Guidance
On Delinquent Filer Program [02/26/01]
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Labor Department Settles its
Lawsuit Against Navcom Systems 401(k) Plan Officials [02/23/01]
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St. Louis-Based Pension Plan Businessman
and Company Placed on Probation, Fined For Embezzling 401(k)
Funds [02/23/01]
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Former Kansas Trustee Ordered to Make
$120,000 in Restitution [02/22/01]
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New Castle Pension Trustee Ordered To Make
Restitution [02/21/01]
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ERISA Advisory Council Slates First Meeting
for 2001 [02/16/01]
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Philadelphia Iron Workers' Annuity Fund and
Trustees To Repay Plan $456,655 to Resolve Labor Department Lawsuit [02/09/01]
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Alabama Pharmaceutical Companies, Pension
Plan Official Sued By Labor Department For Self
-Dealing Of Fund Assets [02/08/01]
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Labor Department Seeks To Recover
Over $1 Million From Defunct Maryland Health Provider [02/06/01]
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Rhode Island Financial Services Company And
President Sued By U.S. Department of Labor To Recover Losses
To Electrical Workers' Pension Plan [01/31/01]
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U.S. Department of Labor Sues Former
Executives of Employee Leasing Firm for Misusing Plan Assets [01/30/01]
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South Hadley, Massachusetts, Employer
Agrees to Restore Unpaid Pension Funds to Plan Participants as
the Result of U.S. Labor Department Lawsuit [01/30/01]
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U.S. Airways Agrees To Pay $2,500 Civil
Penalty In Labor Department Settlement [01/26/01]
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Labor Department Extends Comment
Deadline on Disclosure of Employee Benefit Plan Information [01/23/01]
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Aurora Pension Trustees Sued Over Timely
Deposit Of 401(k) Contributions [01/22/01]
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