Item 5.03 Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal
Year.
On
Financial Services
so amended, the “By-Laws”) of
“Company”) previously approved by the Company’s Board of Directors (the
“Board”), rendering them effective. The Company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of
MetLife, Inc.
The amendments: Board Committees • amend the names of the Governance Committee and theFinance Committee of the Board, respectively, to theGovernance and Corporate Responsibility Committee and theFinance and Risk Committee ; • remove the mandate for the Executive Committee to make recommendations to the Board with respect to the policyholder dividend and to surplus policies and practices, and remove the provision regarding the authority of the Executive Committee to declare dividends in respect of the Company's common stock;
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
• mandate the Board to elect the Chairman of the Board (the "Chairman") from among the Directors; • allow the Chairman, in addition to the Chief Executive Officer (the "CEO"), to call for special meetings of the shareholders or of the Board; • allow the Chairman, instead of the CEO, to: (i) call for meetings of standing committees; (ii) designate the presiding member of a committee if the chair of that committee is not present; and (iii) appoint special committees of Directors for the purpose of advising the CEO; • require that the Chairman preside at meetings of the Board, and maintain that the Board will determine the presiding member in the absence of the Chairman; • remove the provision allowing the CEO to designate a temporary chair for a Board committee with a vacant chair position; Other • allow notice for each meeting of shareholders to be sent by electronic communication, in addition to the previously permitted methods of personal notice or first-class mail; • allow execution of instruments using other marks in addition to the previously allowed facsimile signatures; • allow for future proposed amendments to the By-Laws to be provided to Directors by other means in addition to the previously specified postal mail; • allow for special meetings of the Board to be called on twenty-four hours' notice through expanded telecommunication and electronic means or five days' notice, if notice is mailed, rather than two days' notice; and • require that the record date for any action other than a meeting of shareholders be no more than sixty days prior to such action, rather than fifty days.
The foregoing description of the By-Laws is not complete and is qualified in its
entirety by reference to the full text of the By-Laws, which are filed as
Exhibit 3.1 hereto in redline form showing the amendments described above, and
as Exhibit 3.2 hereto in unmarked form, and are incorporated herein by
reference.
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
Exhibit No. Description 3.1 Amended and Restated By-Laws ofMetropolitan Life Insurance Company , effectiveAugust 23, 2022 , redlined for amendments effectiveAugust 23, 2022 . 3.2 Amended and Restated By-Laws ofMetropolitan Life Insurance Company , effectiveAugust 23, 2022 . 101 Pursuant to Rule 406 of Regulation S-T, the cover page is formatted in Inline XBRL (Inline eXtensible Business Reporting Language). 104 Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document and included in Exhibit 101).
——————————————————————————–
Clinton Mora is a reporter for Trending Insurance News. He has previously worked for the Forbes. As a contributor to Trending Insurance News, Clinton covers emerging a wide range of property and casualty insurance related stories.