Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Gatson

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (“Metropolitan”) appeals the award of unemployment benefits to William Outright, a former sales representative for Metropolitan.1 On appeal Metropolitan maintains that Mr. Outright should be disqualified from benefits *658for seven weeks because he was discharged for insubordination. When the record is viewed in light of the remedial nature of unemployment compensation statutes, we find that the conclusion of law of the Circuit Court of Kanawha County and the Board of Review of the West Virginia Department of Employment Security is correct, and therefore, we…