.... Under the Plans, if the life insurance proceeds due to a beneficiary exceed a specified amount, MetLife establishes an RAA, branded a "Total Control Account" ("TCA"), in the name of the...Description ("SPD") for the Kodak Plan states: Payment of a death benefit of $7,500 or more is made under MetLife's Total Control Account. The death benefit...the several options available under the Beneficiary's Total Control Account (TCA) Program. The TCA Program provides your beneficiary with total control of the proceeds from your life insurance. A...

..., MetLife paid the policy benefits of $337,000 into a MetLife Total Control Account (Total Control Account) opened in plaintiff's name. Met...contracted with PNC Bank to process checks drawn on the Total Control Account. In.... Plaintiff provided all of her Total Control Account documentation to her financial planner. Plaintiff regularly received monthly account statements for her Total ...

..., 2007, after plaintiff's husband died, she made a claim for the policy benefits to MetLife. Instead of paying the policy benefits directly to plaintiff, MetLife opened a "Total Control Account" for...plaintiff. In April 2007, MetLife paid $337,000 in life insurance benefits into the Total Control Account and issued plaintiff a checkbook to write checks for the account. The Total.... PNC Bank was the agent for MetLife in the operation of the Total Control Account, and MetLife was vicariously liable for the acts and omissions of PNC Bank...

...her mother's death, plaintiff sent to MetLife a completed set of the necessary claims forms. Her claim was approved and MetLife established a "Total Control Account" for plaintiff. This account was...plaintiff claims that MetLife set up the Total Control Account. North Carolina law defines the term "customer" in this setting as being "a...regarding any claims based on a contract between plaintiff and MetLife may well be correct, their arguments do not otherwise prevail. Plaintiff alleges that the checkbook for the Total Control Account was...

...Total Control Account Money Market Option ("TCA"). The district court thus properly granted summary judgment for defendant on plaintiff's breach of contract claim. See Brown v. Kinross Gold...

...Plan benefits to Donna Noeller on November 18, 1996. Pursuant to an insurance proceeds assignment, $6,173.98 was paid to a funeral home. The balance of $73,527.65 was deposited into a " total control account" in...Donna Noeller's name. She then withdrew approximately $20,000 from the total control account. On December 2, 1996, Donna Noeller...). According to Mobil Summary Plan Descriptions, a total control account is similar to a money market checking account that earns interest. ( ...

...Total Control Account Money Market Option — to give you the time you need to best decide how you may wish to use your insurance proceeds... . . . . These are some of the benefits of the Total Control Account Money Market Option...of checks you may write. (Claims Folder (#14) Ex. 2 at 4) (emphasis added by Clark's complaint). Clark also relies upon a Total Control Account Booklet...

...Company ("Met Life") policy. Under the terms of the policy, Met Life opened a "Total Control Account" in Mrs. Kelley's name and deposited the $10,000 into that account. Furthermore, Met Life mailed...in charge of the Total Control Accounts pursuant to its agreement with Met Life. Under this agreement, State Street is required to provide data- and draft-processing services for the Total Control Account ...a persistent course of conduct with Ohio. State Street has a continuing agreement with Met Life to perform data- and draft-processing services for its Total Control Account holders, including the...

...disbursement exceeded $5,000, MetLife will generally establish a Total Control Account Money Market...Option ("Total Control Account" or "TCA") unless the beneficiary chooses another method of payment. Clark's step-mother filled out the claim form and Clark signed a.... Doc. #111, Exhibit 1. Additionally, the Customer Agreement provides in relevant part: What is the Total Control Account Money...

...form used by beneficiaries to request payment of benefits. 7. MetLife thereafter deposited the $20,000 benefit payable as a result of the Decedent's death into a Total Control Account ("TCA...

...benefit of $7,500 or more is made under MetLife's Total Control Account [i.e., a retained asset account]. The death benefit amount is deposited in an interest bearing money market account and your...Beneficiary's Total Control Account (TCA) Program.” Id. at 101. The Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held the insurance company did not violate ERISA when paying the benefits via a...action involved exercising authority and control over plan assets. 2. We now address whether the selection of the SecureLine Account as the...

...death, MetLife, instead of paying the proceeds of the FEGLI policy in a lump sum, established a so-called Total Control Account at defendant the Bank of New York Mellon Corporation ("Mellon..."). Zelenz, allegedly aided and abetted by her husband, Mark Zelenz, completed a claim for death benefits for the Total Control Account some time prior...time, the Zelenzes had misappropriated the entire contents of the Total Control Account. T...

...claims, creating two total control accounts, each with a balance of $86,276.23, in the names of Sheila Doyle (Cantrell's maiden name) and Amanda Doyle ("Doyle"). On September 13, 1994, Metlife sent letters through the United States ...— to remove the entire balances from both total control accounts. Doyle, with another daughter, Ethyl Mullins, went to the Matewan National Bank to cash the checks. The funds were transferred from the...Metlife total control accounts in Boston to Matewan National Bank of West Virginia. The proceeds were later distributed among various family...

..."Total Control Account" in Owens's name (the "TCA"). (Id. ¶ 20.) MetLife provided a book of blank drafts to Plaintiff...two indices; the rate fluctuated weekly but the annual effective interest rate was no lower than 0.50%. (Id. ¶ 84.) "Total Control Account" is...practice is to hold payable benefits in its own general account until called upon to transfer funds to cover drafts drawn on Total Control Accounts. (Id. ¶ 25.) This practice extended to the benefits paid on Plaintiff's cla...

...., submitted a claim for life insurance benefits on Plaintiff's behalf. (Id. ¶ 11.) MetLife approved the claim and established a "Total Control Account" in Owens's name (the "TCA"). (Id. ¶ 12....) MetLife's practice is to hold payable benefits in its own general account until called upon to transfer funds to cover drafts drawn on "Total ...Cir. 2008). The policies at issue in Faber provided for payment by MetLife's Total Control Account under circumstances...

...") bring this putative class action alleging a single cause of action: that the use of a "Total Control Account" ("TCA") by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company ("MetLife") to distribute death benefits...available under the Beneficiary's Total Control Account (TCA) Program . . . A personalized checkbook allows your beneficiary to easily use all, or a portion, of the money. Funds left with the insurance...the TCA upon the presentment of a check for payment from a beneficiary. Thus, Plaintiffs allege that "[u]ntil a beneficiary draws a check on his or her Total Control Account and the check is paid...

...asset account, called a Total Control Account (TCA), and investing the balances for itself. 648 F.3d at 100. But there was an important...difference: the plan documents expressly stated that benefits would be paid through a Total Control Account. Id. at 100-01...death benefit of $7,500 or more is made under MetLife's Total Control Account," while the other read, "If the benefit from a single claim is $6,000, or more, your beneficiary may receive basic life...

.... Because the Debtor, in her Closing Argument (ECF #136), called the Total Control Account (hereafter defined) non-exempt, I find that the...Debtor filed a voluntary petition on November 7, 2013 (the "Petition Date") (ECF #1). Prior to the Petition Date, the Debtor had a MetLife Total Control Account #3883 ("Account #3883"), which was... The Debtor retained control of the proceeds of Account #3883 at all times. (See ECF #129, ¶17). MetLife Annuity Account #8620 and Jackson Annuity Account #2055 are currently titled i...

...the disbursement of monies to Bentley. Id. at ¶ 8. MetLife deposited the entire $20,613.26 into Bentley's total control account ("TCA") "established by MetLife with BNY Mellon[.]" Id...Bentley should be required. Plaintiff states that "there is a strong likelihood that Defendant Bentley will withdraw funds from the Bentley TCA account making it difficult or impossible for MetLife to...

...sent Keife a claims folder which provided that if the benefit amount equaled or exceeded $5,000.00 an interest-bearing account, known as the Total Control Account ("TCA...MetLife did not make an immediate payment of the benefits because MetLife maintained possession and control of the funds while they were in the TCA. Until Keife draws on the account, the funds.... The TCA is MetLife's version of a retained asset account. The TCA is an interest-bearing account on which the account holder may write checks at...