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Disability Claim Cases Involving MetLife

Metropolitan Life (MetLife) (NYSE: MET) was founded in 1868 and is headquartered in New York, NY. Met Life is the largest insurer in the United States. MetLife serves group benefit products and Individual benefit products. International segment serves these products to groups and individual in the Asia/Pacific region, Europe, and Latin America. The company’s reinsurance business operates as Reinsurance Group of America, but serves customers worldwide. MetLife is widely known by their mascot, Snoopy from the Peanuts cartoon.

The Company’s Institutional segment offers a range of group insurance and retirement and savings products and services to corporations and other institutions and their respective employees. Group insurance products and services include group life insurance, non-medical health insurance products and related administrative services, as well as other benefits and services, such as employer-sponsored auto and homeowners insurance provided through the Auto & Home segment and prepaid legal services plans. Non-medical health insurance consists of products, such as accidental death and dismemberment, long-term care, short and long-term disability, individual disability income, dental insurance, and prepaid legal services.

In 1996 MetLife merged with New England Mutual Life and took over all of the disability insurance policies. In 2001, MetLife was the first insurance company to establish a financial holding company with a nationally chartered bank. MetLife entered the retail-banking arena with the launch of MetLife Bank. The sale of State Street Research & Management Company to Black Rock, Inc. was announced in 2004. In May 2008, MetLife Bank, N.A., completed the acquisition of EverBank Reverse Mortgage LLC, from its parent, EverBank Financial Corp. In May 2009, the Company sold Cova Corp., which is the parent company of Texas Life Insurance Co., to a third party. GenAmerica Financial and General American Life are wholly owned subsidiaries of MetLife, Inc. New England Financial, Texas Life Insurance Company, and Walnut Street Securities, Inc. are affiliates of Met Life, Inc. Throughout the past 15 years MetLife has either merged or purchased numerous insurance companies that sold long-term disability policies and plans.

In 2008, MetLife’s revenues were $46.33 billion Most of MetLife’s individual disability policies are administered from their offices in Tampa, Florida. Attorneys Dell & Schaefer have sued MetLife numerous times and have gained a tremendous understanding and knowledge of the internal claims handling and procedures of the MetLife disability income division.

As disability insurance attorneys, Dell & Schaefer have represented numerous clients with their long-term disability claims against MetLife and its affiliated companies. Disability Attorneys Dell & Schaefer have provided and offer the following legal services for disability claimants that have a long-term disability insurance policy or disability income policy purchased from MetLife:

• Application for long-term disability benefits with MetLife
• Application for short-term disability benefits with MetLife
• Monthly claim handling of MetLife long-term disability insurance claims
• Appeal of a MetLife denial of long-term disability benefits
• ERISA appeal of a MetLife denial of long-term disability benefits
• Lawsuit against MetLife for denial of long-term disability benefits
• Lump-sum buyout of a MetLife long-term disability insurance policy
• Department of Insurance complaints against MetLife for wrongful delay and denial of long-term disability benefits

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Disability benefits cases involving MetLife:

• MetLife Threatens Lawsuit Against Disability Insurance Attorneys For Copyright Infringement
• Over $500,000 of disability insurance benefits will be paid to disabled store manager following MetLife’s wrongful denial (Part II)
• MetLife denies long term disability benefits to sears store manager with heart disease and knee problems (Part I)
• MetLife denies LTD disability benefits to multiple sclerosis woman alleging a 3 year Statue of Limitation in Washington
• New York court rules that MetLife abused discretion when it denied chronic fatigue claim (Part II)
• MetLife denies chronic fatigue syndrome long term disability claim
• MetLife approves disability insurance benefits for OB/GYN suffering from multiple orthopedic conditions
• Court orders Citigroup and MetLife to answer discovery request exposing conflict of interest in long-term disability benefit denial
• MetLife denies long-term disability benefits to a consultant after approving them
• MetLife ordered to reverse denial of long-term disability insurance benefits
• MetLife must reconsider denial of benefits for former MetLife employee
• MetLife abused its discretion when it terminated long-term disability benefits
• MetLife terminates long-term disability benefits to woman with fibromyalagia
• 10th Circuit Court of Appeals validates MetLife’s accidental death and dismemberment denial
• US court of appeals upholds denial of disability benefits by MetLife
• MetLife’s denial of short-term disability benefits found arbitrary and capricious
• Missouri Court denies MetLife’s motion to dismiss long-term disability claim for failure to exhaust administrative remedies
• MetLife denies physician’s long-term disability claim as a result of late application filing
• Federal judge reverses MetLife’s denial of long-term disability benefits to a senior project manager suffering from back pain
• MetLife’s denial of disability benefits can not be challenged due to claimant’s statute of limitation non-compliance
• Metlife’s wrongful denial of long-term disability benefits to a Wells Fargo employee is reversed
• Attorneys Dell & Schaefer win long term disability insurance appeal against MetLife on behalf of engineer suffering from Parkinson’s
• MetLife approves long term disability benefits for senior sales manager in the medical supply industry
• Former financial trader files lawsuit against Connecticut General Life Insurance (MetLife) seeking lifetime long-term disability benefits
• MetLife releases priveleged documents prior to entry of ruling by court