Pension & Benefits Reporter Index-Summary

UNDERFUNDED PLANS

– Actuary negligence, claim over underfunding may proceed (E.D. Pa.), 370
– Endangered or critical funding status, EBSA issues model notice, 702
– Franklin Park, Ill., liability insurer has no duty to defend village against underfunding claims (7th Cir.), 992
– Guidance offered by IRS officials, 844
– N.Y. Racing Ass'n target of PBGC court action, 11

UNIFORMED SERVICES EMPLOYMENT AND REEMPLOYMENT RIGHTS ACT (USERRA)

– American Airlines to settle claim over rights of pilots earning benefits while on military leave (N.D. Tex.), 996
– Claims handling, Senate holds hearings, 2621
– Filing fee not required to pursue claim (7th Cir.), 1049

UNINSURED PERSONS

– CDHPs have little effect on uninsured, 667
– Costs rising, 1024
– Delays in seeking care hike costs, 908
– Dropped employer coverage, uninsured rate rose in 2003-2004, 517
– Middle-income adults affected, study finds, 1496
– State developments

– – L.A. living wage ordinance upheld (Cal.), 874
– – Mass. considers expanding aid to working poor, 1132

– Young adults reported least likely to have insurance, 1286

UNIONS

– AFL-CIO

– – Environment and energy goals should guide fund investments, chief says, 452
– – “Paywatch” for 2008 issued, 886
– – Presidential candidates pushed on health reform, 718

– Alter ego, union claims contracting firm defaulted on obligations, no jurisdiction (E.D. Pa.), 872
– Black workers, unionized more likely to have health care and pension, 764
– Carpenters fund properly ended benefits for retiree currently working in field (W.D. Wis.), 43
– Construction locals and organized crime (E.D.N.Y.), In Brief, 379
– Election 2008 UAW urges activists to mobilize for president who shares goals, 343
– Electrical workers union has standing to arbitrate retiree health benefit changes (S.D.N.Y.), 1088
– Financial records

See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, S 2878

– Form from Labor Dep't, unions would be required to file annually criticized, 712
– Labor Intl. Union pension fund, arrests made in scheme to defraud, 289
– Longshoremen's union, actuary did not breach duty in not advising trustees against lump sum benefit payment (5th Cir.), 1093
– Maritime officers union plan director's whistleblower preempted by ERISA (Fla. Ct. App.), 994
– Meat cutter working in food distribution, not “disqualifying work” (D. Minn.), 870
– Protecting union benefits subject of forum, 1030
– Strategic alliance formed, In Brief, 712
– Teamsters

– – Delinquent contributions, Teamsters absence from suit does not require dismissal (N.D. Ill.), 260
– – Fiduciary duty, local not liable for failing to procure agreement requiring employer to make contributions to jointly-administered pension fund (E.D. Wis.), 1092
– – Frontier Airlines pact ratified, 1280
– – “Kroger 30-and-out” benefits denied to participant who never worked for Kroger (4th Cir.), 868
– – President denied benefit for years he served without salary (N.D. Cal.), 371
– – UPS pact ratified, 77
– – Vesting, full benefits denied to participant (8th Cir.), 1515

– Trust reporting, In Brief, 712

UNITED KINGDOM (UK)

– Buyouts, new rights to protect pensions proposed, 896
– Taxation of employer benefits, guidance issued, 113

UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGE

– Federal proposals

See HEALTH CARE REFORM, FEDERAL

– Kaiser and SEIU push universal access, 669
– Strategy offered by former GAO chief, 858

USER FEES

– Procedures updated by IRS, 105

USERRA

See UNIFORMED SERVICES EMPLOYMENT AND REEMPLOYMENT RIGHTS ACT (USERRA)

UTAH

– Health care tax credit for self-employed approved, 621