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Note To Editors: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) today announced new addresses for the submission of penalty payments and annual report copies (Forms 5500) under the Department’s Delinquent Filer Voluntary Compliance Program (DFVC). Effective April 11, 2006, the addresses for submissions are:

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Washington, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) today announced a technical amendment extending the interim final rules under the Mental Health Parity Act (MHPA) to December 31, 2006.

President Bush signed the extension December 30, 2005, as part of the Employee Retirement Preservation Act (P.L. 109-151, 119 Stat. 2886).

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Atlanta, Georgia - The U.S. Labor Department has obtained a consent judgment and order of non-dischargeability requiring Alfonzo Hall to restore more than $58,000 to the 401(k) plan of former International Agile Manufacturing (IAM), Statesboro, Georgia.

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Atlanta, Georgia - The U.S. Department of Labor has filed suit to restore $37,053 to the 401(k) plan of now-bankrupt Lextron Corporation, Jackson, Mississippi.

“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 department’s Atlanta regional office of the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA).

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Phoenix, Arizona - Assistant Secretary of Labor Ann L. Combs will address 1,500 members of the Investment Company Institute (ICI) at the Mutual Funds and Investment Management Conference, Tuesday, March 21 at the J.W. Marriott Resort & Spa, Phoenix, Arizona. Combs will discuss the President’s retirement security agenda and provide an update on the regulatory activities of the Employee Benefits Security Administration.

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - The U.S. Department of Labor has sued now-defunct Orris Fuel Inc., Creighton, Pennsylvania, and its controller, seeking restoration of funds to the company’s 401(k) plan.

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Atlanta, Georgia - The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent judgment permanently barring Brenda Hamrick, controlling shareholder and president of Trawick Artists Management Inc., Charlotte, North Carolina, from serving as a fiduciary of the company’s 401(k) plan.

SALT LAKE CITY — The U.S. Labor Department is seeking to recover more than $7.1 million in back wages for 7,171 employees of Huntleigh USA Corporation following a Service Contract Act (SCA) investigation by the departments Wage and Hour Division in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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San Francisco, California - The U.S. Department of Labor will hold a free workshop April 20 to help employers and health and pension plan fiduciaries better comply with the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, the federal law governing private employer pension and health benefit plans. The workshop will be held at Hampton Inn San Diego-Sea World/Airport, 3888 Greenwood Street.

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Atlanta, Georgia - A U.S. Department of Labor lawsuit has resulted in a court judgment ordering the CEO of now-bankrupt D&S Consulting Engineering Inc., Decatur, Alabama, to restore $66,128 to the company’s 401(k) plan.

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Atlanta, Georgia - The U.S. Department of Labor has sued the fiduciaries of Rehab Consultants Inc. (RCI), Jefferson, Georgia, for making improper loan payments from the company’s employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) to parent company Rehab Consultants of Florida (RCF) and then abandoning the plan.

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Boston, Massachusetts - The U.S. Department of Labor has sued the president of now-defunct One Source Computer Corporation, Framingham, Massachusetts, seeking restoration of funds to the company’s 401(k) plan.

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Cleveland, Ohio - The U.S. Department of Labor has sued Harold Hopkins and Linda Hopkins, officers of Vista Financial Group Inc., Hudson, Ohio, in federal district court in Cleveland to recover 401(k) plan losses that resulted from fiduciary breaches by the Hopkins. Circle Trust Company also is named in the lawsuit because it is custodian of the plan’s assets.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The U.S. Labor Department announced today that Fidelity National Financial agreed to pay a total of $778,392 in back wages to 1,895 workers after a Wage and Hour Division investigation found they had not been paid in accordance with provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).

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Nashville, Tennessee - A seminar to assist employers, pension plan administrators and other benefits professionals comply with federal employee benefits law will be held April 26 in Nashville at the Doubletree Guest Suites Airport, 2424 Atrium Way. The event is sponsored by the Atlanta office of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA).

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - The U.S. Labor Department has sued Austin James Associates Inc. (AJA), Pocono Pines, Pennsylvania, and its president, Curtis M. Herman, for failing to forward or timely remit employees’ contributions to the company’s 401(k) savings plan.

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Cleveland, Ohio - The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a settlement permanently barring Harold Hopkins and Linda Hopkins, Hudson, Ohio, former trustees of the Vista Financial Group Inc. 401(k) Plan, from serving as fiduciaries to employee benefit plans governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labors Administrative Review Board has upheld fines against the farm labor contractor who employed 14 migrant forestry workers killed Sept. 12, 2002, in a tragic accident in northern Maine.

The unsuccessful appeal, filed by Evergreen Forestry Services of Sandpoint, Idaho, and Peter Smith III, the companys president and owner, contested a $17,000 civil money penalty. The fine was assessed following a Wage and Hour Division investigation conducted under the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (MSPA).

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Alexandria, Virginia - The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent judgment requiring Therapy Management Services Inc. of Alexandria, Virginia, and its president, Brenda Hunt, to restore $32,899 to the company’s 401(k) plan.