Long-Term Care Policy Holder Says MetLife Misrepresented Half-Price Premium Benefit

Mealey's (September 25, 2017, 2:32 PM EDT) -- CHICAGO — The purchaser of a long-term care insurance policy on June 12 told the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals that a lower court erred in dismissing her claim that Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. (MetLife) failed to tell her and a class of other purchasers she seeks to represent that their premiums could go up after they signed up for a policy that halved premiums after age 65 (Margery Newman, et al. v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, No. 17-1844, 7th Cir.)....