Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Hardin

ENTRY OF FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

HAMILTON, District Judge.

The central question in this case is which of two women should be treated as the legal widow of Robert Edwards, an employee of General Motors who died on April 4, 1997. The legal widow is entitled to benefits under an employee benefit plan. This interpleader action was brought by plaintiff Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (“MetLife”), which is the administrator of the Survivor Income Benefit Insurance (“SIBI”) of the General Motors Life and Disability Program (the “Plan”), which is an employee benefit plan regulated…