At the same time, the nation's biggest insurance company, American International Group, had gotten into trouble selling credit default swaps.
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Separately, RBS is having to pay compensation for two mis-selling scandals: mis-selling payment protection insurance, and mis-selling specialist insurance called interest rate swaps to small businesses.
Many view MetLife as primarily a life insurance company selling a variety of products such as variable, universal, whole and term life insurance policies.