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The U. S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent judgment requiring Bertin Steel Processing, Inc. of Wickliffe, Ohio and trustees of its welfare plan to pay $556,842 as restitution for improper loans made by the plan and appointing an independent entity to manage the plan.

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Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala and Labor Secretary Alexis M. Herman today announced formation of the Medical Child Support Group to study and provide recommendations on how to improve the enforcement of medical support obligations for children.

The working group was established by the Child Support Performance and Incentive Act of 1998.

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An Iowa based insurance company, formerly Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Iowa and South Dakota, will pay $6.875 million to employers and their workers who were denied discounts they should have received for health services.

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Regional offices of the Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration (PWBA) will host a nationwide "Employee Benefits Customer Service Day" on a Saturday, March 20, 1999 between 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.

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Secretary of Labor Alexis M. Herman today named Barbara A. Uberti of Wilmington, Del. as chair of the Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans and Dr. Thomas J. Mackell, Jr. of Santa Fe, N.M. and New York City as its vice chair.

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A federal grand jury has indicted a Lexington, Ky. couple for embezzling approximately $7,000 from their company’s profit sharing plan, according to the U. S. Department of Labor.

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The U. S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent judgment appointing an independent trustee to manage the 401(k) plan of Applied Research Corp. of Landover, Md., and requiring two of the company’s former owners to repay $120,940 in restitution and civil penalties for failing to remit employee and employer contributions owed to the plan.

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Leslie B. Kramerich has been appointed to the position of Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy of the Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration (PWBA) by Secretary of Labor Alexis M. Herman. Kramerich also is delegated the duties of PWBA’s Assistant Secretary until a permanent candidate is appointed to fill the post.

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The U.S. Department of Labor today issued proposed regulations addressing electronic communications of certain information by employee benefit plans and minimum standards for maintenance and retention of employee benefit records in electronic form.

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San Francisco - Charles V. Mugrdechian, Jr., pled guilty January 25, 1999, in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, Fresno, to three counts of embezzlement from the Mid-Valley Employers Trust Group Insurance Trust (also known as Key Advantage Trust), a trust that was set up to provide medical insurance to the employee welfare benefit plans of small employers, the U.S. Department of Labor reported today.

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The U.S. Department of Labor filed a lawsuit against the American Technical Institute of Memphis, Tenn. alleging that the institute failed to timely transmit employee and employer contributions owed to the institute’s money purchase pension plan.

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Secretary of Labor Alexis M. Herman today announced the appointment of five new members to the Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans who will represent various sectors of the employee benefits field.

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ESA Press Release: Crackdown on Labor Law Violations in Saipan Results in $2.1 Million in Back Wages [01/20/1999]

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The director of the health and welfare fund of the International Leather Goods, Plastics, Novelty and Service Workers’ Union in St. Louis, Mo., was indicted on three counts of embezzling approximately $4,500 from the fund.

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ESA Press Release: Texaco to Pay $3.1 Million to Women Professionals and Executives in Largest Pay Discrimination Settlement [01/06/1999]

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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

ESA Press Release: Labor Department Proposes Rules for New Immigration Law [01/05/1999]

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The U.S. Department of Labor today announced its intention to hold a public hearing Feb.17 and 18 and, if necessary Feb. 19, 1999, on a proposed rule governing employee benefit claims procedures.

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The corporate trustee of a 401(k) and profit sharing plan in Madison, Wis., was ordered to restore more than $50,000 to the plan for making imprudent investments on participants’ behalf and for authorizing the plan to engage in conflict-of-interest transactions in violation of the federal pension law.

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(Also issued from New York as NY 232 on Dec. 28, with the following headline -Federal Court Names Independent Fiduciary to Take Over Elmont, New York-Based Health Insurance Plan — Affiliated with Firm Based in Great Neck, Plan Owes $25 Million in Claims in 32 States)

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In an opinion handed down in the federal district court in Orlando, a long-running lawsuit of the U.S. Department of Labor against the Orlando-based Reinecke Agency, doing business as Dealers Association Plan (DAP), is essentially concluded.