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Philadelphia – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) and the Pennsylvania Department of Insurance will offer a free health law compliance assistance seminar for employers, plan fiduciaries and plan service providers on April 8 and 9 at the Hotel Carlisle Embers Convention Center, 1700 Harrisburg Pike, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

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Washington – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a proposed regulation providing a model notice for use by multiemployer defined benefit pension plans to notify plan participants and others that their plan is in critical funding status. The proposed regulation is the result of the Pension Protection Act of 2006 (PPA) signed into law by President George W. Bush on August 17, 2006.

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Kansas City, Missouri – The U.S. Department of Labor has filed a lawsuit against Ronald Unterreiner, the president, secretary and director of Design and Construction Services Inc., in Chesterfield, Missouri, which sponsored the Design and Construction Services Inc. SIMPLE IRA Plan, for failure to forward $10,351.34 in employee contributions to the plan.

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San Francisco – The U.S. Department of Labor has reached an agreement with the president of UltraCard Inc., a revoked Nevada corporation operating out of Los Gatos, California, to restore employee contributions and lost interest to the company-sponsored 401(k) plan.

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New York – The U.S. Department of Labor has filed a lawsuit asking the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York to appoint an independent fiduciary to oversee the abandoned 401(k) plan of NCC Sportswear Corp. of Glendale, New York.

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Plymouth, Minnesota – The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent judgment appointing an independent fiduciary to terminate the Allstate Home Mortgage 401(k) Plan and Trust and distribute $90,507 in plan assets to six plan participants.

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Washington – Hewitt Associates LLC and the Enron Creditors Recovery Corp. have agreed to restore $11.2 million to the court-supervised settlement fund for Enron participants, the U.S. Department of Labor announced today. The settlement resolves a contempt motion filed by the secretary of labor against Hewitt for having misallocated court-supervised settlement funds owed to Enron employees.

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New York – The marketing and communications company Guild Concepts Ltd., White Plains, New York, and its president have been ordered to repay $1.5 million to the company’s pension plan under a consent judgment resolving a U.S. Department of Labor lawsuit alleging violations of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).

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Washington — The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has re-scheduled its public hearing to March 31, and April 1 (if necessary), to hear testimony about its regulatory proposal on the disclosure of service provider compensation and conflicts of interest information to employers. The hearing will take place at the Labor Department in Room S-4215 A-C, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW in Washington, DC.

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San Francisco – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) will hold a free workshop in Phoenix on April 3 from 8 to 10 a.m. MST to help employers, the employee benefit community and others better comply with federal employee benefits law. The workshop will take place at the Arizona Small Business Administration Entrepreneurial Center, 4130 E. Van Buren Street, Suite 140.

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South Bend, Indiana – The U.S. Department of Labor has sued the owner and fiduciary of 401(k) and health care plans for employees of Allegra Print & Imaging Inc. in South Bend for improperly using assets for the benefit of the company in violation of the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).

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Boston – The former head of defunct Third Sector Systems Inc., Waitsfield, Vermont, has agreed to restore nearly $7,000 in delinquent employee contributions owed to participants of the company’s retirement plan under a consent judgment obtained by the U.S. Department of Labor.

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Boston – A free health law compliance assistance seminar for employers, plan fiduciaries and plan service providers, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) and the Massachusetts Department of Insurance, will take place March 19 and 20 at the Sheraton Newton Hotel, 320 Washington Street, in Newton, Massachusetts.

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Washington – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a proposed rule to provide greater protection for employee contributions deposited to pension and welfare benefit plans with fewer than 100 participants by proposing a safe harbor period of seven business days following receipt or withholding by employers.

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Washington — The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) will hold a public hearing March 20-21, to hear testimony about its regulatory proposal on the disclosure of service provider compensation and conflicts of interest information to employers. The hearing will take place at the department in Room S-4215 A-C, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW in Washington, DC.

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Atlanta – The U.S. Department of Labor has sued Knoxville College and its former president, Dr. Barbara Hatton, to recover employee contributions of $14,725 which were allegedly diverted from the participants’ individual retirement savings plans in violation of the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).

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Boston – A.J. DesJardins Roofing Co. Inc. of Exeter, New Hampshire, and its owner have repaid $32,700.83 to the company’s 401(k) plan to resolve a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Labor for failure to timely deposit employee contributions owed to the plan and file reports required under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).

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Kansas City, Missouri – The U.S. Department of Labor filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas to appoint an independent fiduciary to oversee the abandoned 401(k) plan of defunct Professional Resources Inc., a technology consulting company in Overland Park, Kansas.

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Washington - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) today released a Field Assistance Bulletin (FAB) 2008-02, which provides guidance to the agency’s national and regional offices on the department’s final wellness program rules.