( June 4, 2026, 11:07 AM EDT) -- NEW YORK — In the wake of recent appellate rulings that revived three separate Employee Retirement Income Security Act cases similar to theirs, retirees who sued Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. and related defendants over the use of allegedly outdated mortality tables in calculating qualified joint and survivor annuity (QJSA) benefits moved in New York federal court for preliminary approval of a class settlement they say has a present value of $23 million....