Latest MetLife Headlines
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MetLife Names 2 to Board of Directors
Feb 27 2008 // Wal-Mart Stores President and CEO Eduardo Castro-Wright and Tupelo Capital Management CEO Lulu C. Wang have been named to the board of directors of New York-based MetLife Inc., the company said. With the additions of...
Business Moves
Feb 10 2008 // ASI Lloyds ASI Lloyds (ASI) of St. Petersburg, Fla., is entering the personal property insurance market in Louisiana. ASI was a recipient of the Insure Louisiana Incentive program. ASI plans to begin writing new homeowners...
Supreme Court to Rule Whether Disability Insurer in Conflict of Interest
Jan 22 2008 // The Supreme Court last Friday said it would rule on an appeal by MetLife Inc. in a case that could make employee benefit plans more expensive. The dispute centers on whether insurance companies such as MetLife have a...
MetLife Auto & Home to Expand Texas Homeowners Line, Agency Force
Jan 15 2008 // MetLife Auto & Home plans to introduce a new enhanced homeowners insurance program in the state of Texas, the company announced. Under the MetLife Auto & Home Residential Property Program (RPP), agents can work...
Mass. Auto Insurers Get Into Gear for Competition
Dec 2 2007 // Most plan to cut rates as state moves ahead with plan for managed competition for 2008 Auto insurance carriers are looking to compete by rewarding drivers with good driving records, good grades, hybrid vehicles, property...
Arbella, MetLife, Main Street Amend Mass. Rates; OneBeacon Unveils Plans
Nov 28 2007 // Several Massachusetts auto insurers have amended last week’s filings to further lower rates and increase discounts for safe drivers while another revealed its plans for 2008 under the new managed care system. MetLife...
Mass. Drivers Get Taste of Competition; Insurers Cut Rates, Enhance Products
Nov 20 2007 // Drivers with good driving records, good grades, hybrid vehicles, property policies and pets are among those who could benefit under auto insurance rating plans filed for use in 2008 in Massachusetts. Indeeed, most drivers...
Business Moves
May 7 2007 // Biron Agency Jane Biron Siviski has reactivated her former exclusive bond-only agency in Newington, Conn. Biron Siviski, owner of The J. Biron Agency Inc., announced that her company has separated from Sinclair Insurance...
Miss. AG Suit, MetLife P&C Settlement Latest Katrina Claims Developments
May 3 2007 // Plaintiff attorneys at the Scruggs Katrina Group, headed by Richard “Dickie” Scruggs, said they have brokered an out-of-court settlement for 34 Met Life Property & Casualty policyholders in Mississippi...
Wife of Former Yankee Lidle Sues Baseball’s Benefit Insurer
Mar 28 2007 // The widow of New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle has sued MetLife Inc., claiming she is owed more than $1 million under baseball’s benefit plan. Lidle died in the crash of his small plane Oct. 11 and was covered by...
People and Places
Feb 12 2007 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners named its 2007 committee chairs and vice chairs. The new committee assignments are for one year: Life Insurance and Annuities Committee: chair, Julie McPeak, executive...
People and Places
Feb 12 2007 // William J. Mullaney was named president of MetLife’s Institutional Business segment. He succeeds Leland C. Launer Jr., who has decided to pursue other opportunities. Mullaney most recently served as president of...
People
Feb 11 2007 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners named its 2007 committee chairs and vice chairs. The new assignments are for one year: International Insurance Relations Committee: chair, Diane Koken, commissioner,...
People
Feb 11 2007 // William J. Mullaney was named president of MetLife’s Institutional Business segment. He succeeds Leland C. Launer Jr., who has decided to pursue other opportunities. Mullaney most recently served as president of...
MetLife Auto’s Mullaney Shifts to Institutional; Moore to Head Auto
Jan 19 2007 // William J. Mullaney has been named president of MetLife’s Institutional Business segment. Mullaney succeeds Leland C. Launer, Jr., who has decided to leave MetLife to pursue other opportunities. Mullaney most...
MetLife Pays $19 Million to Settle Spitzer Investigation
Jan 2 2007 // MetLife Inc., the largest group life insurer in the nation, will pay $19 million and change some of its business practices to end an investigation of payments made to brokers to steer clients its way, Attorney General...
MetLife Study: Almost One-Quarter of Workers Changed Jobs Last Year
Jan 30 2006 // With nearly one-quarter (22 percent) of all employees changing jobs over the past 18 months — and 74 percent of businesses expecting competition for talent to escalate over the next 18 months...
Conn. Names Fernandez to Lead New Insurance Development Agency
Nov 28 2005 // Six months after she announced creation of the office, Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell has named Barbara Fernandez to lead the state’s Insurance and Financial Services (IFS) Business Development Office. The office...
John Hancock Life CEO Benson Retires
Aug 16 2005 // James M. Benson, president and chief executive officer of John Hancock Life Insurance Company in Boston, has elected to retire, Manulife President and Chief Executive Officer Dominic D’Alessandro...
Myriad Development Names Former Travelers, MetLife Exec as VP
Aug 5 2005 // Bonnie McHenry, a former vice president of Underwriting at Travelers, and director at MetLife Auto and Home, has joined Austin, Texas-based Myriad Development in the role of vice president, Underwriting Services. McHenry...
