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Tallahassee, Florida – A free health law compliance assistance seminar for employers, plan fiduciaries and plan services providers, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) and the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation, will take place January 28 and 29 at the Doubletree Hotel Tallahassee, 101 South Adams St. in Tallahassee.

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Washington – The U.S. Department of Labor and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) today released a new publication to help small employers understand automatic enrollment for 401(k) plans offered to their employees. Automatic Enrollment 401(k) Plans for Small Businesses provides a comprehensive overview of the advantages of starting and operating this type of 401(k) arrangement.

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Minneapolis – The U.S. Department of Labor has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Minneapolis to appoint an independent fiduciary to oversee the Nat Joseph Catering Inc. 401(k) Plan.

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Atlanta – The U.S. Department of Labor has sued Mark Possein and National Marketing and Entertainment Group Inc. (NMEG) in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for misusing $68,424 of plan assets to benefit the company and other entities between January 2003 and May 2005 in violation of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).

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Atlanta – The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of South Carolina has agreed with U.S. Labor Department that Carl E. Reid may not use bankruptcy to avoid repaying $44,993 plus any lost earnings to the SIMPLE IRA plan of American Fittings Inc.

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Mondsview, Minnesota – The U.S. Department of Labor has sued Hyman Freightways Inc., formerly located in Mondsview, for allegedly abandoning its profit-sharing and 401(k) plan in violation of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act after the company ceased operations in October 1997.

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Atlanta – The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained consent judgments restoring an additional $250,000 to the Georgia Plumbers Trade Association Health Plan in Griffin, Georgia, and requiring the payment of a $50,000 civil penalty to the federal government. Earlier this year, the court ordered restitution of more than $500,000 for losses suffered by the plan.

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St. Amant, Louisiana – The U.S. Department of Labor has sued to appoint an independent fiduciary to manage the Highland Fabricators Inc. 401 (k) Plan in St. Amant and distribute $85,981 in assets to 38 participants of the abandoned 401(k) plan. The Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) requires plans be managed by a named plan fiduciary.

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Washington —The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a final regulation implementing the department’s authority to assess civil penalties against plan administrators who fail to disclose certain documents to participants, beneficiaries and others as required by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, as amended by the Pension Protection Act (PPA).

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Atlanta – The U.S. Department of Labor has sued Business Financial Solutions Inc., which operated as Academic Financial Services, and trustees of its 401(k) plan, for alleged violations of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) involving delinquent employee and employer contributions owed to the plan.

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San Francisco – The U.S. Department of Labor has sued Power & Data Technology, San Jose, California, and its president to recover $39,325 and distribute the assets remaining in the company’s abandoned 401(k) profit-sharing plan. The defunct company manufactured and distributed electrical components.

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Memphis, Tennessee – The U.S. Department of Labor has sued defunct Stephens Brothers Inc. of Memphis for abandonment of its 401(k) plan in violation of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.

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Pittsburgh – The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a default judgment removing West Chester, Pennsylvania-based Five Star Industrial Services Inc. as fiduciary of the company’s 401(k) profit-sharing plan and appointing Metro Benefits Inc. to be the plan’s independent fiduciary.

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Atlanta – The U.S. Department of Labor has sued Midland Employer Services of Brentwood, Tennessee, for failing to fulfill its fiduciary duties to the company’s 401(k) plan in violation of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).

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Philadelphia — The U.S. Department of Labor has sued to obtain appointment of an independent fiduciary to oversee the 401(k) plan of C.R. Warner Inc., a defunct New Jersey company.

“We filed this case to ensure that the plan participants were able to recoup their retirement savings,” said Mabel Capolongo, regional director of the department’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) in Philadelphia.

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Chicago - On Thursday December 18 a federal grand jury in Chicago, Illinois, indicted Beny Garneata for embezzlement and false statements related to the employee benefit plans of the Chicago Journeymen Plumbers’ Union Local 130 and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Union Local 134.

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Washington – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) today announced the availability of the 2008 Form M-1 annual report for multiple employer welfare arrangements (MEWAs). Plan administrators may use EBSA’s online filing system to expedite processing of the form.

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Shaker Heights, Ohio - The U.S. Department of Labor has filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court, Cleveland, requesting the appointment of an independent fiduciary to terminate the FFS Inc. 401(k) retirement plan and to distribute plan assets to the participants.

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Traverse City, Michigan – The U.S. Department of Labor has sued the president and fiduciary of the 401(k) plan of Emergency Consultants Inc., Traverse City, for failing to forward contributions to the plan as soon as reasonably feasible, in violation of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).