MetLife Urges N.Y. Regulator To Keep Felon Record Secret.

National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, November, 1998 by HAYS, DANIEL

An insurer that obeys federal law and obtains regulatory permission to employ an ex-felon can keep specifics of its application secret, Metropolitan Life Company argues in papers filed recently with the New York insurance department. Thus far, the New York-based company is unique in its position concerning the relatively new statute.

Two other carriers--which like MetLife applied to keep employees with a criminal record on the payroll--made no such confidentiality request and their records with New York state are open to the public. MetLife's latest confidentiality argument was made in an effort to block a Freedom of Information records request by National Underwriter, which is pending before the insurance department. In arguing for a continued seal,...

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