Pension & Benefits Reporter Index-Summary

BACKDATING

BANKRUPTCY

– Accounting, GASB seeks comments, 1545
– Air Line Pilots Ass'n, In Brief, 2023
– Chrysler

– Consolidated Freightways workers who did not render services within 180 days before bankruptcy filing not counted in total entitled to priority claim for unpaid health benefits (9th Cir.), 1149
– Delphi retiree health insurance, cuts planned (S.D.N.Y.), 319
– Distress termination, PBGC test questioned, 2373
– ERISA, health plan sponsors claims against third-party administrator have priority (N.D. Ind.), 369
– §401(k) plans

– – Loan payments not secured debt for purpose of calculating disposable income (9th Cir.), 1380
– – Reorganization plan did not properly consider reduced §401(k) payments (8th Cir.), 1925

– GM

See AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY

– Halpin unpaid contributions not plan assets (2nd Cir.), 1234
– Harvard Industries, PBGC settlement contributions are specified liability losses (3rd Cir.), 1510
– Lehman Brothers seeks approval of PBGC settlement (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.), 1235
– LTV Steel bankruptcy, workers claim for benefits denied priority status (6th Cir.), 309
– Medical debt, In Brief, 1822
– Multiemployer pension fund violated automatic stay provision by offsetting pension benefits by amount his firm owed (7th Cir.), 1036
– Postal Service bankruptcy predicted, 1860
– Terminations

See TERMINATION OF PLANS

– Wells Fargo ex-exec cannot exempt stock options from bankruptcy, 870
– Wolverine Proctor & Schwartz, PBGC settlement approved (Bankr D. Mass.), 1153

BCBS

See BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD PLANS (BCBS)

BENEFITS INTERFERENCE

– Anti-cutback rule breach alleged, settlement approved (N.D. Iowa), 509
– Art Insatiate of Chicago do not illegal interfere with security guards pension benefits (N.D. Ill.), 2450
– BIS Frucon worker who retired 2 months before vesting forfeited benefits (E.D. Mo.), 975
– Fiduciary Trust did not retaliate by firing worker for trying to market unauthorized hedge fund (S.D.N.Y.), 2019
– Informal complaint about plan, later firing not illegal retaliation (E.D. Pa.), 1834
– Insubordination, firing no interference (8th Cir.), 1453
– Medical certification for return to work not provided, firm did not retaliate (S.D. Iowa), 1578
– Natl. Railway Act no bar to pilot's suit over interference with disability retirement benefits (D. Minn.), 581
– Open heart surgery, worker claims firing done to prevent benefits (E.D. Pa.), 1319
– Smoking worker fired, no violation (D. Mass.), 1926
– Travel and entertainment policy violations, firings upheld (3rd Cir.), 1779
– TRW closure of underutilized facility no benefits interference, 853
– Visteon ex-workers benefits interference claim dismissed (E.D. Mich.), 1089

BLS

See BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS (BLS)

BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD PLANS (BCBS)

– Ark. AWP law not blocked, federal jurisdiction lacking (8th Cir.), 87
– Autism therapy coverage denial, class certification denied (E.D. Mich.), 866
– Dialysis treatment rate cut, no violation of Medicare as Secondary Payer Act (N.D. Ga.), 510
– ERISA, out-of-network provider accused of interfering with in-network providers, MCO's claim not preempted (D.N.J.), 1093
– Generic drug use expanding, 901
– GM, fiduciary breach by health plan trustee alleged (E.D. Mich.), 863
– La. BCBS improperly waited until litigation began to raise new grounds for denying benefits (5th Cir.), 787
– Natl. Work@Lunch Day planned, 964
– 24-hour home care (D. Minn.), In Brief, 875

BRAZIL

– Social security debts, firm owners and exec no longer responsible, 1688; use of tax credits permitted, 2279

BUDGET, U.S.

– Expansion of payroll IRAs included in FY2010 budget, 451
– Expansion of saver's credit program included in FY2010 budget, 451
– FY2010

See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, HConRes 85, SConRes 13

– GOP proposed cuts, In Brief, 1417
– Medicaid and Medicare, budget for FY2010 includes cuts, 483
– Reid (D-Nev) and OMB chief comment on White House proposal, 533
– Social Security, FY2010 budget criticized by GOP, 465
– Specific agencies

See SPECIFIC AGENCIES

BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS (BLS)

– Compensation costs data

See COMPENSATION

– Omnibus funding bill signed, 617