Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. must count as back pay a nearly $2.5 million arbitral award it was ordered to pay a former employee, for the purpose of calculating his pension, a federal judge has ruled, even though the arbitration panel did not explain what exactly the award was for or how it was calculated.
Southern District Judge Paul Engelmayer (See Profile) ruled on Sept. 25 in Roganti v. MetLife, 2:12-cv-00161, that MetLife’s decision not to count the award as back pay was arbitrary and capricious, because it failed to offer its own explanation of what the award could be.
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