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MURRAY v. METROPOLITAN LIFE INS. CO.

Docket No. 09-3716-cv.

583 F.3d 173 (2009)

Darren F. MURRAY, Mary A. Devito, Kevin L. Hyms, Harry S. Purnell III, Kathy Vanderveur, and Michael A. Giannattasio, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY and MetLife, Inc., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: September 29, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Teresa Wynn Roseborough, Kevin S. Finnegan, Duncan J. Logan, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, New York, NY; Michael B. Mukasey, Mary Jo White, Bruce E. Yannett, Mark P. Goodman, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, New York, NY, for Appellants.

Jared B. Stamell, Stamell & Schager, LLP, New York, N.Y. (John C. Crow, David K. Bowles, Robert A. Skirnick, and Samantha H. Evans, on the brief), for Appellees.

Before: JACOBS, Chief Judge, WESLEY and HALL, Circuit Judges.

DENNIS JACOBS, Chief Judge:

Plaintiffs in this class action were policyholders of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company when it was a mutual insurance company. They complain that they were misled and shortchanged in the transaction by which the company demutualized in 2000. Nine years after the action was commenced and five weeks before trial was scheduled to begin, plaintiffs moved to disqualify the lead counsel for Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and MetLife,...

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