Metlife reported a first-quarter loss for 2009. The company fell short of analysts expectations and the share prices subsequently fell 2.9% ending the day April 30, 2009, at $28.60.WSJ.com: MetLife Swings To 1Q Loss... (April 30, 2009)

An important key event sometime after 2001 metlife and metropolitan brokeup the company into separate parts (Metlife Property and Casualty) , (Metlife Auto And Home) , and (Metlife Life Insurance) are now under separate key management.

On August 18, 2009 Metlife announced it's CEO Robert Henrickson would be visiting Rhode Island to hold a “town hall-style” meetings with the insurer’s employees today and tomorrow to explain its restructuring and recent losses.http://www.pbn.com/detail/44306.html

1. 1868: MetLife gets its start when a group of businessmen raised $100,000 to insure Civil War veterans
2. 1907: Company moves headquarters to lower Manhattan, into the world's tallest building at the time
3. 1929: Company lends money to construct the Empire State Building, saving the project
4. 1940s: MetLife invests more than half of its assets in war bonds
5. 1980: Company adopts Snoopy as mascot
6. 2000: Has IPO, seventh largest in US history