- A U.S. district judge ruled in favor of Cigna following an Employee Retirement Income Security Act lawsuit that accused the insurer of unjustly denying claims made by former NFL players.
- The payer announced July 13 it had tapped Bonnie Evelyn to be market president of its Georgia and Alabama health plans.
- Cigna released the third edition of its COVID-19 Vaccine Perception Study July 15. The study surveyed 13,000 people across 11 markets to highlight perceptions and attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccines around the world.
- Cigna announced it was looking to launch a non-life insurance company in South Korea to complement its current life insurance company in the country, Lina Korea.
- The health insurer announced June 23 it would permanently close its Denison, Texas, center, shifting its 500 employees to a remote work model.
- A New Jersey judge dismissed a lawsuit June 30 alleging that Cigna refused coverage for a lab’s COVID-19 services.
- Cigna’s pharmacy benefit manager, Express Scripts, filed a lawsuit June 22 against the U.S., alleging that the Internal Revenue Service refused to pay the company $43 million in tax returns.