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6/23/2006 7:54 AM Anonymous wrote:
Steve, your story deserves justice. Only wish my life ins. policy was not with Met Life. Makes one wonder if other companies violate the ADA and go unnoticed.
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7/10/2007 7:42 PM KArmstrong wrote:
Metlife denied the last two weeks of my wife's STD after 5 1/2 months of approval so she can't open her LTD.
Metlife sucks! "For the IFs in life", yeah right, IF your injured, we GUARANTEE you're screwed!
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1. 9/14/2007 6:01 PM Steve Mitchell wrote:
  This is very typical of MetLife. While employed there, a guy I worked with left the company after 19 years due to the lousy internal review process of associates. He died suddenly at age 41 six months later. When his wife tried to obtain his 401K money which was still managed by MET it took her months to get compared to the 3 days it might have took had he still worked there. Just one more example of the insensitivity of MetLife. What goes around, comes around though...
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8/6/2007 4:54 PM Pat Mooney wrote:
I was employed by CitiGroup (29 yrs) and insured by Met. I was on LTD for heart condition. Met cancelled me without having me see MD of theirs. Once cancelled, Citi terminated me, I now have no health or life ins and am still unable to work at much of anything.
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1. 9/14/2007 6:08 PM Steve Mitchell wrote:
  Yes, MetLife sucks! Every time I see their blimp at sports events I pull out my imaginary rifle and direct a few imaginary rounds in its direction.
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10/27/2007 1:37 PM Bill Liebrich wrote:
Met was my auto insurance company. I logged on and made my payment online on the last day even though I was showing an overpayment. Page came up that it had to be processed. Monday morning comes and I check and find that I have been canceled because policy lapsed. It lapsed the same way in August so I figured a phone call would take care of it. I was told by six different people that I was screwed. What I didn't know was that they reported me as lapsed and it cost me $5000 for a six month policy at Progressive so I have to try to straighten this out. I took over our finances after my wife of 25yrs. has been diagnosed w/ a terminal pancreatic disease. They are well aware of our situation. I am sitting here with their check for overpayment. I was a 20 year customer with one ticket and one $2500 (total cost of repairs to both vehicles) accident in 20 years. I was a customer during the whole life scams, class action suits and worked with family of executives that knew and traded heavily in their stock immediately prior to the split. It seems they can do anything they want.
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11/30/2007 9:00 AM chaz wrote:
You are right; they will commit outright fraud and perjury to win a case; If I lose my appeal you will have an online "competitor" as I will NEVER give up!
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12/4/2007 9:50 AM anonymous wrote:
Try this: Disabled, Met gets a "back to work order" from my Dr. Terminates my checks; Dr. then sends them a full retraction stating that he had sent in the notes of a different patient by mistake... Met STILL presents notes to judge, knowingly and w/deliberate indifference, and wins a Summary Judgment... No doubt fraud and perjury; pending appeal now. I thought all attorneys were "officers of the court" and were deemed by oath not to present false (clearly, not "gray area")documentation... I will never give up!
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1/5/2008 4:45 AM Markw wrote:
Glad I'm not with them for health/life. Filed a claim against them in an auto accident and they're trying to weasel out of paying 20% of the claim. They ticked me off enough I registered a nice little domain.
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7/18/2008 8:19 PM anonymous wrote:
Well,

I feel sorry for you all and it does not surprise me one bit that MetLife is doing these things. I currently work for MetLife, but not for long, I only have three weeks left. MetLife is laying off my whole department and sending our jobs to India. It is about time someone started a website like this, I hope you all get some justice, although you won't if MetLife has anything to say about it. They truly are a sorry company to do business with and work for.
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1. 7/18/2008 8:54 PM Stephen Mitchell wrote:
  Ahh...I knew that would happen when I left 3 years ago. I'm so glad I now work for a company that values it's employees. I hope their stock plummets and the blimp blows up. Screw Snoopy! A shame they use a character that stands for something they're not.
  
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  1. 9/16/2008 12:11 PM WildBill wrote:
    The way they treat their employees can only be described as shameful. It's work, work, work. Nights and weekends are often expected often with no pay or comp time. Compensation and appreciation for their hard work is often minimal at best making most employees feeling unappreciated. After surviving many years working for this company and finally leaving, I'm just glad to be out of there.
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    1. 9/16/2008 6:39 PM Stephen Mitchell wrote:
      That's one of the reasons I left. Kudos to you for doing the best thing for yourself. If you need a job at a quality company, let me know.
      
      Cheers,
      
      Steve Mitchell
      
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      1. 9/21/2008 10:25 PM WildBill wrote:
        Thanks. I might take you up on that offer in the coming months.
        
        I want to make one other point given the current bad economic environment. It will be ever more important for the success of a company to have the best of workers. The best workers are the ones who are the most motivated and happy. It affects the very quality of the services you provide your customers. It's something that every company has to think about or else face failure as has been the case for a number of financial institutions already.
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2. 9/17/2008 10:13 AM Deb Mrugala wrote:
  I worked for Metlife in Freeport il where some of the training happened for the future transfer of jobs to India. My best friend worked her ____ off to get the correct instructions together as well as making sure that the people who would be doing the training in India understood everything. She had to make a comprehensive flow chart along with written instructions. A few months later a few supervisors took a trip over there to watch over the training. We got treated to a slide show once they returned - oh joy and so what. Well to make a long story short, all that my friend went through to make sure everything was correct was for nothing. Most of that work came back because either the people over there didn't want to do it or couldn't do it correctly. It's not like they could go over to a co-workers desk to see if they did it correctly. I pity the poor insured who's policy is being handled over there. Policy endorsements were hard enough to do here where an agent could be contacted at a drop of a hat or you could confirm with another co-worker so how are they to be done correctly there.
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7/18/2008 11:13 PM Frank wrote:
They need to change their cuddly "snoopy" logo to Linus; that's ok, if I lose I am ready to deplete my family 401k--as they have bankrupted me--and sue their attorney(s) in their INDIVIDUAL capacities; meaning if I win in that manner, the lawyer who filed a perjured brief has to hire a third party attorney out of HER pocket and will be personally responsible for any judgement--snoopy can't back her... I will NEVER NEVER quit,and NEVER fold, bend, or break. Godspeed; I don't care anymore, dying anyway...
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1. 9/17/2008 10:20 AM Deb Mrugala wrote:
  Icouldn't agree with you more. My saying or motto for MetLife was "my boss is a dog (Snoppy) and I work for peanuts" and it was ever so true. While supervisors walked around and attended "necessary" meetings my co-workers and I were there at our desk (dutiful little employees ever so true to the company)working our fannies off never to hear "we appreciate" or "thank you". Met had a slogan of their own which is "People Count" - or yea where! None of us ever felt like we counted for anything not in any way or fashion.
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9/17/2008 10:47 AM Deb Mrugala wrote:
I worked for Metlife Freeport Il up until September 20, 2007 (a year ago tomorrow) where I was fired for trumped up charges. I worked in the dept that did policy endorsement changes and I truly can say I enjoyed the work. The majority of our work came by mail where an agent would send in a request and I would then enter the change into the system. This task was not just sitting at the desk doing entry work, sometimes it took a bit of brain power and knowing what the system was capable of doing. Supervisors wanted so many done in an hours time which was a next to impossible number to hit but being the faithful employee I gave it my best shot but was not enough according to my reviews. Then the company wanted to try something new, so they (the company) could say we were now a "paperless" company, the request that were sent by mail now came in by virtual fax. No training was given to us - basically on our own, which was not unusual. The requests would come in, sit in a disanated file where a team lead would go into that file remove the work and assigned it to someone who was capable of doing that type of request. I was not trained in all work so every once in a while I would see something I couldn't do so I would place it back in the file it was remove from or email the team lead saying I couldn't do it and attach the request to the email. I asked the team lead if this was okay to do (email and attach)and she gave me the go ahead. Well guess what, I was fire and the excuss they used "I was moving files"! No I wasn't I was placing work that I couldn't do back into the originial file it came from or email the team lead with the request attached. What they wanted me to do with the work I couldn't do was make a copy of it and walk it over to the team lead, who was over on the far end of the room (and sometimes not even there) and leave it. If the lead was not there I was to bring it back to my desk and walk it over a few minutes later - all while I was to "keep up my production numbers"!! What a farse. Then during my firing I was never given a chance to explain anything - I couldn't come to my own defense and all the floor supervisor kept saying was "you moved files". Even the worse crimminal has a right to a defense but Met doesn't see it that way. I happened to bump into the supervisor that fired me and was asked how I was doing. My reply "I never knew I was SO miserable until you fired me now I see the sun alot more instead of grey clouds". The look on her face a money amount could never touch.
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1. 9/17/2008 4:50 PM Stephen Mitchell wrote:
  My sentiment exactly. Outsourcing does not work for the reasons you gave. Who are the idiots at the top making these decisions? They are so removed from the reality of the situation. Figures!
  
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  1. 1/14/2009 9:58 PM Deb Mrugala wrote:
    Hay Steve how are you? I know it's been a bit of time but I have to tell you a bit of news. I just got off the phone with a friend who "still" works at Met the same place I worked at - well your blogging must have hit a very raw nerve. She told me that a few days after I told her of my blog to you, supervisors were told to tell employees not to blog or get involved in blog pertaining to Met. I also found out today that one of the persons who got rid of me is now gone too! I must admit that felt good. Also since the day I was fired I've been on unemployment and thanks to things being the way they are I keep getting extentions so things are so terribly bad - may not be a full paycheck but at least it's something. I just had to tell you about the "blogs". If you want to reply back to me go through my email address. I hope all is well for you - who knows with the way things are going, maybe not far down the road there may not be a MetLife. Don't think I would shed a tear for that except for people like yourself, policy holders that got duped and of course fellow employees. Write back if you can.
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9/16/2009 2:53 AM NotSnoopy wrote:
I got fired after 17+ years after returning from disability (which they refused). The data center is a joke. The director is an idiot, surrounds himself with yes men, and hires friends and family with zero qualifications. HR in Troy and Scranton is a joke. They are the most unprofessional people I have ever seen. Not to mention they are poor excuses for human beings also. Shift managers are worthless ass kiss yes men and women. Karma will catch up with all these pieces of s--t one day. I hope they all die in a blimp crash....Oh the (lack of) humanity............
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9/23/2009 3:55 AM timetogo wrote:
Steve, Your story has given me the courage to finally take a stand against discrimination that is happening to me at my job for a major real estate company. Can you please update on your current situation against MetLife?
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1. 11/1/2009 10:42 AM Steve Mitchell wrote:
  I finally settled with MetLife out of court. Had I pressed the situation to a court setting, I firmly believe I would have taken them for a much more significant sum of money. They knew they were in the wrong and were happy as pigs in shit..which is what the people in question are anyhow...to pay me and get me off their radar. What this whole thing came down to is "people" with an ignorant, self-serving frame of mind who didn't have the insight or perspicacity to understand my plight as a disabled individual. If they could have projected themselves into my position, they would have truly understood. Nonetheless, what goes around, comes around. Some day those people who contested me will understand and I hope they're pain goes deep. Piss on them all...
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10/27/2009 4:26 PM 5yearFight wrote:
I always wondered how the people that worked at MetLife slept at night. I just lost in Appeals after 5 years of fighting. I was diagnosed with numerous severe health problems plus a disabling disease by over 50 doctors at Grand Rounds in one of the best teaching hospitals in the nation. MetLife hired "lawyers" that said I diagnosed myself over the computer. They said it so many times that it stuck. They called 2 of my doctors, didn't record the phone calls, and misstated what they said. Both doctors wrote letters to deny the lies, but MetLife used the lies in court anyway. The damage was done. ML will do anything, absolutely anything, to win. They delayed paying my claim in the beginning for one year saying that they had only two nurses and one was out indefinitely. It's against the law to delay that long, but they don't care. I have seen on the internet where they did this exact same thing to others. They lied to the State of Texas and said that they withheld my pay to collect my daughter's social security funds (in error) because they did not know that my daughter was 18 when she received her social security payment. I told them repeatedly that she was 18 when they started taking the money from me. The truth was that they had no right to it in the first place under the terms of the policy because I was divorced. If I had not found the policy and sent them a copy of their own policy, they would have successfully STOLEN over $10,000 from my daughter. They returned the money to her.
In my opinion, the odds of collecting on a disability policy purchased from MetLife for more than the short time they use to make their stats look good are zero. You would do better to buy a lottery ticket. You could save yourself having to face the fact that there really are people like this on earth and you would live longer without the stress. If FIFTY doctors isn't enough, forget it.
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10/27/2009 10:56 PM Stillhere wrote:
Reading some of these comments, thank God we rid you all from our company! It's like reading at a first grade level all over again, take a hint, we cleaned house which was much needed.
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1. 11/1/2009 5:39 PM 5yearFight wrote:
  Oh, by the way, Stillhere, you could use some grammar lessons before you accuse people of being at the first grade level. Your second sentence is a terrible run-on. It should really have a period after the word again. Then you should start a new sentence with the word "Take" (capitalized please). You're welcome.
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11/1/2009 5:26 PM 5yearFight wrote:
Just hang on, Stillhere. God will do the ultimate "housecleaning."
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11/7/2009 11:51 AM 5yearFight wrote:
When treated unfairly by the insurance company in the handling of your disability claim, file a complaint with your state insurance board. The insurance company will have to respond to your complaint. Here is a website that will make it easy to file the complaint for your state.
https://eapps.naic.org/cis/fileComplaintMap.do
I also encourage everyone to write to your Congressmen and Congresswomen and tell them that the rules of ERISA were well intentioned, but they have unfairly impacted the employee and benefitted the disability insurance company that only needs to prove that they were not arbitrary or capricious when they denied a claim. Tell them that the disabled are being denied the benefits that they paid to receive and families are suffering as a result. ERISA has been amended before and can be amended again. The disabled are the least able to speak up, but absolutely need to.
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1/9/2010 8:02 AM Joe McManis wrote:
I am on disability from metlife due to bilateral hip replacements.I can do a sedentary job but metlife did not want to retrain me but they want medical eveidence every year so they say.I was wondering what there standard police is when they can ask for medical updates and function checks.Replaced hips are going to stay the same.
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3/3/2010 2:34 AM Cheryl Blackwell wrote:
Dear Steve,
I just found this information about MetLife while searching for anything I could use in my current lawsuit against them for failure to pay on a LTD policy. If a company will treat their own disabled, but ACTIVE, employees in the manner indicated by your story and others on your blog, I can no longer think their conduct in my case is an accident. After all, I'm only a customer.

I had to quit my job in the Florida University system in June, 2008. I checked with MetLife after I turned in my application for LTD benefits at the end of June and was told by the representative: no problem; you'll start receiving your checks in 90 days. I finally decided not to renew my 2009 contract and followed my doctors' wishes, secure in MetLife's assurance that I would have an income. I had increased my FICO score to the 700s, paid off all my credit card bills and was told that my student loans would be pardoned, since I was never going to be able to afford to pay them off. I gave one-half of my home to my ex-husband because I couldn't pay the mortgage and sold him my half of everything we still owned together. I had decided that the cheapest way for me to live was to buy a fixer-up houseboat, for which I paid cash and was to get a fixer-up loan on 9/11/09 --otherwise known as credit crisis day. No loans were given on anything, much less boats unless the paperwork had been completed prior to 9/11/09. A month later the loan was offered to me again, but then denied because Metlife told the lender that I did not qualify for any income from them. MetLife said this BEFORE they started to investigate my claim, but AFTER they had told me my checks would start to arrive in 90 days. I was forced to hire a lawyer and fix up the boat to make it liveable by withdrawing my pension (from AIG of all companies) and ended up with less than half of its value before credit crisis day. Metlife has forced me to cash in every asset I had at great loss because of the timing.

MetLife has dragged this out since mid-2008 and there is no light at the end of the tunnel yet. I lost my health insurance, the other half of my house and all the cars, plus the company I had started to help with income when I became to sick to work. I am now headed for bankruptcy and my health is rapidly deteriorating because I can't afford a doctor or medications. I can't get any help from the state because withdrawing my pension placed me over the annual income limit to qualify for aid.

In the 2 yrs I've fought them, they have used all the tactics on me that I read about on your blog. Fraudulent doctors statements, "lost paperwork," forms that weren't "completed properly" when I was initially hired by that college in 2007 and the list goes on. With the ERISA laws, I don't have a chance against them; but, like you and others I read about, I WILL NEVER QUIT exposing MetLife for their unethical, immoral and illegal practices.

MetLife has ruined mine. Can I get your advice re: ?
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8/25/2010 4:30 AM DebbieH wrote:
Cheryl,
If there is one thing I know for sure, it is NO coincidence that you are experiencing the exact same problems as so many others have with MetLife. It took them ONE FULL YEAR to approve benefits on my claim because "they only have 2 nurses and one is out indefinately." That, right there, is so insanely ridiculous that they should be prosecuted for violating the laws requiring them to respond sooner. The Texas Board of Insurance is worthless in these matters, and they know it, so they just wrote a letter back responding to my complaint saying blah blah blah blah whatever, and nothing happened to them. MetLife is powerful and it is scary. Going to court is your best option, but it is not a sure thing as you can see from the blog, and I can also testify. The blogger said that they presented false evidence knowing that the records belonged to someone else. ML told the judge that my doctors made statements in phone calls (which they didn't) knowing that there were letters from the doctors saying they never said it. The approach seems to be whatever they can get away with in court goes. If you go to court, go with a large law firm and not a small one like I did. If court dates pile up, there will be enough staff to give your case the attention it deserves. Also, ask what experience the attorney has IN COURT and in APPEAL and press to find out success rates. The attorney should certainly be an ERISA specialist.
Lastly, NEVER give up. Even after you resolve your case, NEVER NEVER give up. I WON'T. Every person needs to continue this fight until change comes about. How many people's lives will they ruin with bankruptcy, poverty, and worsening health before we can get change if we don't speak up? Tell everyone you know. The next person you tell may just know that legislator that cares. What a novel idea.
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9/30/2010 8:50 AM DMalick wrote:
You are most certainly correct about MetLife, and its flawed and lawless character regarding discrimination in the workplace. My friend worked there in Warwick for over six years trying to survive the persecution and deliberate cover up of illegal discrimination by the HR dept and the management staff. Congress knows about them. They are sick and scary. MetLife is evil and believes it has hidden itself or is safe from those it has committed crimes against but they are wrong. Its coming. The word is spreading. Find Robert Sanders. He has written a novel on what has transpired and has proof of the discrimination and plenty of witnesses. They will do anything to cover this up and have allies in states and other corporation that are also at risk. Their time is coming and they have many enemies and have made many mistakes.
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1. 1/15/2011 9:34 PM Stephen Mitchell wrote:
  Certainly..if you have the link..by all means..pass it along and I'll incorporate it.. Thanks!!
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