Cigna Has Continued its Battle for Coverage of ERISA Class Action

Cigna has continued its fight for coverage again urging the Pennsylvania Superior Court to overturn a decision that let its excess insurers off the hook over an ERISA class action brought by the company’s employees. The dispute centers on changes to the benefit plan, which U.S. District Judge Janet Arterton’s 2012 decision found had been fraudulently altered. Cigna argues that this finding does not qualify as a fact finding, and that the fraud exemption was inaccurately applied.

Cigna’s argument has been that the finding relied …

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