Category Archives: Carnival of Employee Benefits

This week in the Employee Benefits world: Roy F. Harmon of the Health Plan Law discusses Contribution about ERISA Fiduciaries? – The Eighth Circuit Weighs in On the Issue. Paul Secunda of the Workplace Prof Blog discusses a Summary of … Continue reading →

This week in the Employee Benefits world: Richard Bales of the Workplace Prof Blog provides a list of the top 5 Benefits/Compensation/Pension related papers downloaded from SSRN this week. Roy F. Harmon of the Health Plan Law blog discusses a … Continue reading →

This week in the Employee Benefits world: From the IRS: The IRS published the Summer 2007 Edition of Employee Plans News. Packed full of information, it provides insight into Rev. Proc. 2007-44 and the staggered remedial amendment cycle, the Employee … Continue reading →

This week in the Employee Benefits world: From the IRS: The IRS released Notice 2007-49, which identifies covered employees for purposes of Code section 162(m)(3). Sheppard Mullin in the Corporate & Securities Law Blog explains Notice 2007-49 in IRC 162(m) … Continue reading →

This week around the Employee Benefits world: From the IRS: Revenue Procedure 2007-37 – Application for Approval of Plan-Specific Substitute Mortality Table; Announcement 2007-59 – OK to Make Certain Mid-Year Changes to Safe Harbor 401(k) Plans; Proposed Regulations on Employer … Continue reading →

This week around the Employee Benefits world: The IRS released 2 corrections to the Final 415 Regulations. The first made some corrections to the revised Treas. Regs. 1.415(b)-1, 1.415(d)-1, 1.415(f)-1, and 1.457-5. The second correction was to correct a typo … Continue reading →

This week around the employee benefits world: Susan Mangiero of Pension Risk Matters discusses ‘Til Jail Do Us Part? How Much Do You Know About Your Money Manager. Amy Howe at SCOTUSBlog, in Invitation Brief in No. 06-273, Cox v. … Continue reading →

This week around the Employee Benefits world: Michael Fox at Jottings by an Employer’s Lawyer discusses this week’s ERISA decision by the 6th Circuit, Thurman v. Pfizer, Inc. (6th Cir. 5/8/2007), in Be Careful When You Promise – Misrepresentation and … Continue reading →

This week around the Employee Benefits world: Brian King, at Brian King’s ERISA Blog, discusses ERISA’s Limitation of Actions Period. He provides a good summary of the decision this week from 4th Circuit Court of Appeal in White v. Sun … Continue reading →