41. It expects to boost earnings by adding rival Caremark, which also manages prescription-drug benefit plans. 42. It expects to boost earnings by adding rival Caremark, which prescription-drug benefit plans. 43. Investigators are focusing in particular on potential violations of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, or ERISA, which sets out rules for prudent operation of benefit plans. 44. It provides benefit plans for employees of private companies. 45. Its most controversial provision concerns lump sum payouts from defined benefit plans. 46. LaBow has repeatedly said the defined benefits plan would cost too much and risk making the company uncompetitive. 47. Managers, coaches and trainers are included because the union represents them in the pension and benefit plan and they therefore pay union dues. 48. Many companies allow employees to make changes to medical, retirement and other benefit plans during December. 49. Most big steel companies have defined benefit pension plans. 50. More Arizona businesses are expected to add birth-control prescriptions to their drug benefit plans during the next year, prodded by a federal ruling last week. |