It sounds like a plot straight out of an old movie: lawyers and investigators hired to seek a beneficiary to deliver a long-overdue bequest.
But it’s one of today’s headlines, the firm doing the hiring of those lawyers and investigators is MetLife Inc., and they really are seeking thousands of beneficiaries of long-overdue pension funds after MetLife failed to pay them.
A Wall Street Journal report says that the law firm, Robinson McDonald & Canna LLP, was hired to “investigate how [MetLife’s] retirement business failed to aggressively search for possibly tens of thousands of people owed pension benefits” and the specialty firm’s mission is to track down the missing beneficiaries.
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