It sounds like a plot straight out of an old movie: lawyers andinvestigators hired to seek a beneficiary to deliver a long-overduebequest.

But it’s one of today’s headlines, the firm doing the hiring ofthose lawyers and investigators is MetLife Inc., and they reallyare seeking thousands of beneficiaries of long-overdue pension funds after MetLife failed to paythem.

A Wall Street Journal report says that the law firm, RobinsonMcDonald & Canna LLP, was hired to “investigate how [MetLife’s]retirement business failed to aggressively search for possibly tensof thousands of people owed pension benefits” and the specialtyfirm’s mission is to track down the missing beneficiaries.

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