ASBESTOS UPDATE: MetLife’s Unit Receives 2,076 Claims at June 30

MetLife, Inc.’s subsidiary, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (MLIC), received about 2,076 new asbestos-related claims during the six months ended June 30, 2010, compared with 1,726 claims during the six months ended June 30, 2009.

MLIC received 1,180 new asbestos-related claims during…

ASBESTOS UPDATE: Foster Wheeler’s Bid in Crowder Lawsuit Denied

The U.S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana, Terre Haute Division, denied Foster Wheeler LLC’s motion to strike and dismiss Paragraph 27 of Dennis and Suzanne Crowder’s asbestos- related complaint.

The case is styled Dennis Crowder and Suzanne Crowder, Plaintiffs v.…

ASBESTOS LITIGATION: MetLife Unit Has 981 New Claims at March 31

MetLife, Inc.’s subsidiary, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, received 981 new asbestos claims during the three months ended March 31, 2009, compared with 2,005 new claims during the three months ended March 31, 2008.

As reported in the 2008 Annual Report, MLIC…

ASBESTOS LITIGATION: Surgers’ Lawsuit Filed v. 82 Firms in Texas

Alfredene Surgers, on behalf of her late husband Joseph Wayne Surgers, on March 23, 2009, filed an asbestos-related lawsuit in Jefferson County District Court, Tex., The Southeast Texas Record reports.

Some of the 82 defendants in the suit are A.W. Chesterton…

ASBESTOS LITIGATION: MetLife Unit Records 74,027 Claims at 2008

MetLife, Inc.’s subsidiary, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, recorded 74,027 asbestos personal injury claims at Dec. 31, 2008, compared with 79,717 claims at Dec. 31, 2007, according to the Company’s annual report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March…