Drelles v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued a decision agreeing with Public Justice that consumers who opted all of their claims out of a nationwide class action settlement with MetLife cannot be barred from fully prosecuting their individual cases against the company. MetLife had sought an injunction preventing the opt-out litigants from taking any discovery or asserting any claims in their individual claims relating to illegal nationwide sales practices at issue in the class action settlement. Public Justice Senior Attorney Leslie Brueckner and Ken R. Behrend of Pittsburgh were co-counsel.