Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
38 distinct federal cases coded as employment matters from public court records (2010–2025)
5 trusted published court opinions across 5 distinct cases · 2 docket-only cases without a recorded end date
What public court records show
In public federal court records, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company is named as a defendant in 38 federal cases coded as employment matters between 2010 and 2025.
Of the 5 trusted published opinions analyzed, the most common outcomes were: 2 ended in a ruling for the employer, 2 were sent back to a lower court, and 1 was dismissed.
The most common claims on record were Discrimination, Breach Of Contract, and Constructive Discharge.
Cases were filed across 2 states, most often in NY.
These figures summarize publicly available U.S. federal court records only. Most workplace disputes are resolved privately and never appear in litigation. A case outcome reflects many factors and is not a finding that any employer violated the law.
Written decisions across 5 distinct cases.
Jurisdictions represented in the analyzed opinions.
About this employer
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company appears in 5 trusted published federal employment opinions. Recent written decisions on record:
Rowell v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (2025) — Remanded. An employee filed a lawsuit against Metropolitan Life Insurance Company claiming discrimination and constructive discharge (being forced to quit). The case was originally filed in New York's court system, but the company wanted it moved to Georgia, where the employment-related events actually took place. Read the ruling.
Foster v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (2025) — Dismissed. This case involved a dispute between an employee named Foster and Metropolitan Life Insurance Company over employee benefits covered under ERISA (the Employee Retirement Income Security Act). ERISA is the federal law that protects workers' pension and health benefit plans. Read the ruling.
Spires v. MetLife Group, Inc. (2021) — Defendant Win. Read the ruling.
The published opinions primarily involve Discrimination (3 of 5), Breach of Contract, Constructive Discharge. Browse the linked claim hubs for outcome statistics and other employers facing the same allegations. Discrimination, Breach of Contract and Constructive Discharge.
Published opinions span New York (3), Florida (2). New York is an EEOC deferral state, which extends the federal Title VII / ADA / ADEA filing deadline from 180 to 300 days. Browse state-specific employment rulings for jurisdictional patterns. New York rulings and Florida rulings.
Opinion Outcomes
Opinion Stages
5 analyzed opinions have a classified procedural stage.
Of the 1 summary-judgment opinions, 1 ended the case in Metropolitan Life Insurance Company’s favor and 0 let the worker’s claims continue.
What do these stages mean?
- Appeal
- A higher court reviewing an earlier decision. Many published opinions come from this stage, after a lot has already happened in the case.
- Summary judgment
- A ruling where the judge decides the case — or part of it — without a trial, because one side argues the key facts are not in dispute. For workers, getting past this step is often the biggest hurdle.
- Motion to dismiss
- An early request — usually by the employer — to throw the case out before any evidence is gathered.
Published federal-court opinions only — most workplace disputes are resolved privately. This is not anyone’s odds, and not a finding that any employer violated the law.
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Claim Types
What these numbers mean
A case is one lawsuit, identified by its court and docket number. The docket is the running court record for that same case — it is not an extra case.
A published opinion or ruling is a written court decision. One case can produce several opinions, so opinion counts and case counts answer different questions. Only trusted, reportable opinions are used in the outcome statistics on this page.
Docket entries are the individual filings inside a case — motions, orders, scheduling notices. We read them to confirm a case is real and to see where it got to, but an entry is never counted as a case or as an outcome. A single case can generate hundreds of entries.
Far fewer opinions than cases is normal. Many employment cases settle privately or close without a published opinion. No opinion here does not mean the worker lost; it means this public record does not show a reportable result.
Everything on this page comes from public federal court records. Where we are not confident a record is accurate, we leave it out rather than guess.
Federal court cases
public court recordsOne row per court+docket case · written opinions stay grouped inside their case · plaintiff names redacted
Other court records naming this party
7 published opinions name this party but are not coded with an employment claim. Some are labor, unemployment or workers’ compensation matters whose claim type was not recorded; others are not employment disputes at all. They are not counted in any figure on this page, and no outcome is shown for them.
- Employee v. Metropolitan Life Insurance CompanyD. Minn. · 2025 · Minnesota
- Employee v. Metropolitan Life Insurance CompanyC.D. Cal. · 2024 · California
- Employee v. MetLife Group Inc3rd Circuit · 2024 · New Jersey
- Employee v. Metropolitan Life Insurance CompanyD.S.C. · 2022 · South Carolina
- Employee v. Metropolitan Life Insurance CompanyN.D. Cal. · 2019 · California
- Employee v. Metropolitan Life Retirement Plan for United States Employees11th Circuit · 2007
- Employee v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceE.D. Mich. · 1997 · Michigan
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Data sourced from public federal court records via CourtListener.com. Case outcomes extracted using AI analysis. This information is for educational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. The presence of an employer on this page does not imply wrongdoing — many cases are dismissed or resolved without findings of liability.