June 07, 2023
A Washington state woman has settled with MetLife in a lawsuit in which she accused the insurer of wrongfully relying on a prosecutor's press release to deny death benefits after her husband was fatally shot by police in 2019, according to case filings.
November 18, 2022
MetLife wrongly refuses to pay death benefits to the widow of a man shot and killed by police, relying on a prosecutor's press release and a "vague" policy exclusion that denies coverage when a person's death is related to a felony, according to a lawsuit filed in Seattle federal court.