CULAR v. METROPOLITAN LIFE INS. CO.

No. 95 Civil 5250(LBS).

961 F.Supp. 550 (1997)

Zlatka (Lola) CULAR and Louis E. Pappas, Plaintiffs, v. METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Metlife Securities, Inc., Metropolitan Insurance and Annuity Company, Metropolitan Tower Life Insurance Company, Harry Kamen, Ted Athanassiades, Roy C. Albertalli, Phillip Briggs, Larry Brewster, Anthony Cannatella, John J. Creedon, Robert J. Crimmins, Harold Leff, James Madera, Jeffrey G. Slane, George P. Slane, John D. McMahon, Stuart G. Nagler, Robert G. Schwartz, John H. Tweedie, Vito Vitone, Edward Walsh, Curtis H. Barnette, Joan Ganz Cooney, A. Luis Ferre, James R. Houghton, Helene L. Kaplan, George M. Keller, Richard J. Mahoney, Allen E. Murray, John J. Phelan, Jr., John B.M. Place, Hugh B. Price, William S. Sneath, and John R. Stafford, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

March 27, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Quinn, Marantis & Rosenberg, L.L.P., by Timothy C. Quinn, Jr., Bradford D. Conover, White Plains, NY, for Plaintiffs.

Proskauer Rose Goetz & Mendelsohn, L.L.P. by Allen I. Fagin, Bruce Fader, David I. Goldblatt, New York City, for MetLife Defendants

Proskauer Rose Goetz & Mendelsohn, L.L.P. by Claire P. Gutekunst, New York City, for State Street Defendants.

Adler, Pollock & Sheehan, Inc., by John A. Tarantino, Mark O. Denehy, Providence, RI, for Defendant Vito Vitone.

Folkenflik & Mcgerity by Margaret McGerity, New York City, for Defendant M.S. Peress.


OPINION & ORDER

SAND, District Judge.

Plaintiffs Zlatka Cular and Louis E. Pappas advance six claims arising from their employment with Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and from the defendants' overseas insurance sales practices.1 They also advance a claim for fraudulent inducement to enter into a life insurance contract. Defendants, relying on arbitration clauses in agreements executed by both plaintiffs, move to compel...

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