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Charlotte, North Carolina - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) in Atlanta will hold a seminar to assist employers, pension plan administrators and other benefit professionals comply with federal employee benefits law. The Charlotte, North Carolina seminar will be held August 22, 2006, at the Embassy Suites, 4800 South Tryon Street.

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Washington, DC - A federal court in Washington, DC has removed the National Association of Special Police and Security Officers (NASPSO), and its executive director, Caleb A. Gray-Burriss, as fiduciaries of the pension and health plans of NASPSO, according to a temporary restraining order obtained by the U.S. Department of Labor.

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San Francisco, California - The U.S. Department of Labor has sued three former officials of a Livermore, California business for failing to properly forward employee contributions to the company’s 401(k) plan. The plan covered approximately 95 participants when the telecommunications and networking company ceased operations in October 2004 at the Livermore and Pleasanton locations.

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Atlanta, Georgia - The U.S. Department of Labor has sued Orlando-based IMDC Inc. and Gregory C. Mundy, fiduciary of the company’s 401(k) profit sharing plan, to recover lost benefits for plan participants.

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LIVONIA, Mich. - The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a settlement restoring $46,925 to the Crudo Brothers Company Inc. 401(k) plan and permanently barring plan fiduciary Fernanda Crudo from serving in a fiduciary capacity or as a service provider to any employee benefit plans governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).

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San Francisco, California - An independent trustee will begin distributing the remaining funds from a now-defunct Oakland company’s “orphaned” 401(k) employee benefit plan under a default judgment against the AM-PM Service Company.

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Atlanta, Georgia - The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent judgment ordering Commetrex Corp., Roswell, Georgia, and CEO Michael Coffee to restore $27,452 to the company’s 401(k) plan.

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Washington, DC - The Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans and its three working groups will meet August 9-11, in Room N-4437 A-C at the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), 200 Constitution Avenue, Washington, DC.

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Douglas Daly, former owner and president of Integrated Metal Fabrications, Inc. (IMF), has agreed to restore $33,269 in lost assets and interest to the company’s 401(k) and Profit Sharing Plan. The Bucks County, Pennsylvania company ceased operations in August 2005.

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Portland, Oregon - The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a default judgment removing defunct Emerald Solutions, Inc., Portland, Oregon, from its position as plan administrator of the company’s 401(k) plan. The court action clears the way for former employees of Emerald Solutions, Inc. to regain access to their retirement accounts.

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Washington, DC - Today the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) announced a final regulation requiring plans to file Form 5500 annual reports electronically, beginning with 2008 plan year filings due in 2009. Simultaneously, EBSA, along with the Internal Revenue Service and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, proposed changes to the forms that will be processed under the new electronic system.

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Kansas City, Missouri - The U.S. Department of Labor will host a free employer workshop called “Understanding Your Responsibilities under ERISA and USERRA” on July 26 at the Kauffman Foundation Conference Center, 4801 Rockhill Road in Kansas City.

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Troy, Michigan - The U.S. Department of Labor will hold a free workshop in Troy, Michigan to help employers and administrators of pension and health plans comply with the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), the federal law that governs private-sector employee benefit plans. The workshop will be held August 9 at the Holiday Inn Troy, 2537 Rochester Court.

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Creighton, Pennsylvania - A federal judge has ordered now defunct Orris Fuel Inc. and its controller, Victoria Skinner, to restore $34,688 in lost assets and interest to the company’s 401(k) plan.

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Washington, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), the Internal Revenue Service and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation today released advance copies of the 2006 Form 5500 and instructions.

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Minneapolis, Minnesota - The U.S. Department of Labor obtained a default judgment against Paul J. Johnson from serving as a fiduciary to any plan governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and removing him as fiduciary of the Jerome Johnson Excavating Profit Sharing Plan, Maple Plain, Minnesota.

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - A federal judge has barred Plan 3 Inc., Plan 3 Technologies, and owner Dennis Kelly from serving for 15 years as fiduciaries to employee benefit plans covered by the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). The U.S. Department of Labor alleged that the Rockville, Maryland companies and Kelly violated ERISA when they failed to properly administer health and welfare plans across the country.

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Boston, Massachusetts - The U.S. Department of Labor has sued the owner and operator of Landry Architects of Salem, New Hampshire, seeking restoration of funds to the company’s profit sharing plan.

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Atlanta, Georgia - The U.S. Department of Labor has filed suit to restore losses to the 401(k) plan of Commetrex Corp., Roswell, Georgia.

“Trustees of a 401(k) plan have a responsibility to ensure that the assets of the plan are used solely to benefit participants,” said Howard Marsh, director of the Atlanta regional office of the department’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA).