Latest MetLife Headlines
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MetLife: Lack of Car, Home Insurance Sales ‘Ridiculous’
Sep 26 2013 // MetLife Inc., the largest U.S. life insurer, is pushing agents to sell more car and residential coverage after the head of the company’s main retail business said they’ve been missing an opportunity to...
MetLife Says Regulators May Miss Key Insurer Risks with Focus on Bank Rules
Sep 19 2013 // Federal regulators may miss important threats to the financial stability of U.S. insurers by focusing on bank risks, MetLife Inc. Chief Financial Officer John Hele said. “Bank rules overlook key insurance...
Senate Bill Gives Federal Reserve Flexibility on Systemically Important Insurers
Jul 26 2013 // A bipartisan group of U.S. senators is introducing legislation that would give the Federal Reserve more flexibility in regulating systemically important insurance companies such as American International Group Inc. The...
Insurers, State Regulators Try to Block Bank-Like Rules by Federal Reserve
Jul 3 2013 // MetLife Inc. and Prudential Financial Inc. have been joined by state regulators challenging the Federal Reserve on how to oversee the biggest insurers under the Dodd-Frank law. The insurers and watchdogs are pressuring the...
MetLife Auto & Home Expands Identity Protection Coverage
May 13 2013 // MetLife Auto & Home has enhanced its identity protection services to include assistance for digital threats, such as e-mail and social media compromise, as well as data breach victim assistance. The services are...
North Carolina Wins MetLife Jobs
Mar 25 2013 // MetLife Inc. announced it will move 2,600 jobs from offices in four Northeast states and California to lower-cost locations in two North Carolina cities, while also getting tax breaks and other incentives that could reach...
Transitioning Jobs at MetLife
Mar 25 2013 // Insurance giant MetLife Inc. recently announced a plan to move some 2,600 positions into newly created facilities in North Carolina by the end of 2015. And this means a lot of folks in the Northeast could be facing some...
Some Massachusetts MetLife Employees Take Work-From-Home Option
Mar 19 2013 // Insurance giant MetLife Inc. recently announced it will be transitioning some 2,600 jobs from five Northeastern states and California to new U.S. retail and technology hubs in North Carolina. The company’s decision...
North Carolina Governor Says He Had No Role in $100M Offer for MetLife Move
Mar 14 2013 // Gov. Pat McCrory said this week he had no role in a deal partly brokered by his former employer that promised MetLife Inc. about $100 million in potential tax breaks and other incentives to move thousands of jobs to North...
MetLife Moving 2,600 Jobs to North Carolina from Northeast, California
Mar 11 2013 // Insurance giant MetLife Inc. said last week that it will move 2,600 jobs from offices in four Northeast states and California to lower-cost locations in two North Carolina cities, while also getting tax breaks and other...
MetLife No Longer a Bank Holding Company
Feb 18 2013 // The insurer MetLife Inc., which sold its bank deposits in January, says it is no longer a bank holding company. MetLife said it received approval for the status change from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the board...
MetLife Granted Third Fed Extension to Submit Capital Plan
Jan 8 2013 // The Federal Reserve has granted MetLife Inc a third extension to submit its capital plan as the insurer moves closer to completing the sale of its deposit-taking business to a unit of General Electric Co.’s GE...
MetLife Taps Attorney From The Hartford as New General Counsel
Dec 18 2012 // MetLife Inc. announced Ricardo Anzaldua will join the company as general counsel, effective this week. He will report to CEO Steven Kandarian and become a member of MetLife’s executive group. Based in New York,...
N.Y. Law Firm Nelson Levine Hires 2 Attorneys From Harleysville, MetLife
Nov 30 2012 // Targeting strategic expansion, Nelson Levine de Luca & Hamilton, a New York-headquartered national law firm serving the insurance industry, announced that Louis H. Kozloff has joined as a partner in the Insurance...
MetLife to Sell Mortgage Service Unit , Focus on Insurance Operations
Nov 6 2012 // MetLife Inc. is selling its $70 billion mortgage servicing business to JPMorgan Chase & Co. for an undisclosed price. MetLife said last Friday that the move is part of its strategy to focus on the insurance side of...
MetLife Acquires Georgia’s Reynolds Plantation
Aug 2 2012 // MetLife has acquired one of Georgia’s largest resort and golf communities. The insurer has acquired Reynolds Plantation that includes The Ritz-Carlton Lodge, six golf courses, four marina, and nearly 5,000 acres of...
MetLife Receives Fed Extension on Capital Plans
Jun 20 2012 // MetLife Inc. received a three-month extension from the U.S. Federal Reserve on its plans to return capital to shareholders, the company said on Tuesday, potentially removing a short-term overhang on its stock. Its shares...
MetLife to Shift U.S. Business, Target Global Growth
May 24 2012 // MetLife Inc. will change `its product mix in the United States and push harder for growth in international markets to substantially boost returns by 2016, the largest U.S. life insurer said on Wednesday. MetLife also said...
MetLife to Buy Georgia Golf Site
May 21 2012 // The posh golf community of Reynolds Plantation in Greensboro, Georgia is being bought by MetLife. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that the agreement includes six golf courses, four marinas, nearly 5,000 acres of...
MetLife to Buy Georgia Golf Community
May 11 2012 // An agreement has been announced for the sale of posh golf community Reynolds Plantation in Greensboro, Georgia. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that New York-based insurance and financial services giant MetLife...
