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The U.S. Department of Labor today obtained a preliminary injunction freezing the assets of third-party administrator Administrative Services of Texas, Inc. of Houston, its parent Administrator Services of North America and a former corporate executive to prevent further depletion of the assets of client welfare plans whose accounts were held by them.

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Seattle - The U.S. Department of Labor announced today that Consent Judgments were signed this week in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, Tacoma, which formalize negotiated settlements affecting management of the J.D. English Steel Company Profit Sharing and 401(k) Plan and ordering restitution to the plan for alleged violations of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).

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At today's White House Conference on Mental Health, President Clinton unveiled initiatives by the U.S. Department of Labor to help Americans understand what rights they have to receive mental health benefits under an employer's health plan. He also announced the Department's toll-free hotline where the public can call to receive free copies of this information.

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Community Care Systems, Inc. (CCSI), of Wellesley, Massachusetts, and Frederick Thacher, the company’s chief executive officer and principal shareholder, have agreed to the restoration of nearly $140,000 to the pension plan accounts of the participants of the Community Care Systems, Inc. Employee 401(k) Plan as the result of a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Labor.

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The U.S. Department of Labor has filed a lawsuit against two company officers of Decatur, Ill.-based Kelly Food Products, Inc. for failing to pay $81,382 in health claims from monies forwarded for that purpose by the stop-loss insurer.

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The U.S. Departments of Labor and Health and Human Services are seeking public comments on coverage and notice requirements under the Women's Health and Cancer Rights Act.

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The U.S. Department of Labor today settled its lawsuit against a Harris County, Tex. company, its 401(k) plan and the company owner and plan trustee requiring $6,986 in restitution be paid to five of the plan’s participants.

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The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a settlement agreement providing for Nationsbank of Georgia, N.A., a subsidiary of Nationsbank of Charlotte, N.C., to distribute over $5 million in cash and stock to the accounts of certain participants covered by the Polaroid Employee Stock Ownership Plan.

Under the agreement, the bank will distribute the cash and stock to participants covered by the plan as of April 1989.

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The trustee of a 401(k) plan for a Fort Wayne, Ind., company was permanently barred from managing any plan covered under federal pension law and an independent fiduciary was appointed to manage the company plan’s assets, in a consent order and judgement obtained by the U.S. Department of Labor.

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The Secretary of Labor’s Advisory Committee on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans will hold meetings for its three working groups and its 106th full advisory council meeting on June 8 and 9. All sessions will be held at the Department of Labor’s Frances Perkins Building at 200 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC, in Room N3437A-B.

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The U.S. Department of Labor and owners of G & L Resorts, Inc. in Ormond Beach, Fla.. agreed to an interim settlement removing them from their positions with the plan as partial resolution of a lawsuit alleging they misused pension plan assets to pay company expenses.

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Harold and Sandra Kaplan, trustees of two employee benefit plans for a Long Island company, pleaded guilty, respectively, to embezzling from the company’s defined benefit and 401(k) plans and for failing to maintain required documents for both plans, in violation of federal pension law. Their pleas were entered on May 7 before Judge Arthur D. Spatt in the U.S. District Court in Uniondale, N.Y.

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The U.S. Department of Labor filed a adversary complaint asking the bankruptcy court in Milwaukee not to discharge any debt the former president of the bankrupt Louis Allis Co., Daniel E. Stetler, III, may have for any liability arising from his alleged violations of Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, in an effort to begin recouping monies owed to participants of the company-sponsored 401(k) plans.

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The U. S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent judgment requiring the president of Jan-San Supply Company of Decatur, Ill., to guarantee repayment of $45,000 owed to the plan as restitution for violations committed in his capacity as a trustee of the company’s 401(k) plan.

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The U. S. Department of Labor has sued trustees of the National Electrical Benefit Fund in Rockville, Md., for making an imprudent loan of over $6 million in pension assets and for an imprudent purchase of shares in a limited partnership in 1992 and 1993.

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The U. S. Department of Labor sued a Harris County, Tex. company and its 401(k) plan official for failing to forward to the plan employee contributions withheld from their paychecks, resulting in losses to the participants of $6,986.

Defendants in the case include the Pin Oak Medical/Surgical Associates, located in Houston, the company owner Dr. Lynn R. Gibbs, who also was the plan trustee, and the plan.

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The trustee of two Lexington, Massachusetts-based employee benefit plans and two officers of the now-defunct Auto Engineering Limited Partnership of Lexington have agreed to restore a total of $115,000 to the company’s employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) in order to conclude several lawsuits filed by the U.S. Department of Labor.

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The U. S. Department of Labor has sued now-defunct Ro-Cel Electronics Inc. of Pittsburgh and the trustees of the company’s 401(k) plan for improperly failing to timely deposit employee contributions into the plan.

Ro-Cel, an electronic alarm and security firm, created the plan in 1994 to accept voluntary employee contributions and employer contributions. Although Ro-Cel ceased operations in 1997, the plan has not been terminated.

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The U.S. Department of Labor today sued two Minneapolis-based companies and their retirement plan official for self-dealing violations of federal pension law which resulted in losses to the plan’s participants.