March 11, 2022
Attorneys who represented Cigna and the NFL Player Insurance Plan have reached an out-of-court settlement over the fees they requested for defeating Employee Retirement Income Security Act violation claims, according to Texas federal court filings.
July 23, 2021
Attorneys who represented Cigna and the NFL Player Insurance Plan in a recent defeat of Employee Retirement Income Security Act violation claims are seeking about $1 million combined in attorney fees for working on the case, according to Texas federal court filings.
July 09, 2021
Cigna has escaped a medical provider's Employee Retirement Income Security Act suit accusing it of wrongly denying former NFL players' health insurance claims, with a Dallas federal judge finding that letters exchanged by the parties' attorneys didn't change the calculus of benefits determinations.
March 11, 2020
A federal judge in Texas has refused to reconsider his earlier ruling barring Cigna from using the attorney-client privilege to withhold documents in a medical clinic's suit over the handling of a National Football League health benefits plan.
February 12, 2020
Cigna is urging a Texas federal court to reconsider ruling that the insurer can't use attorney-client privilege to withhold documents in a medical clinic's suit over the handling of an NFL health benefits plan, arguing it would be "manifestly unjust" to let the clinic waive the privilege.
January 06, 2020
A Texas federal court has reversed course and found that Cigna can't use attorney-client privilege to get out of handing over documents relating to its handling of an NFL health benefits plan, finding that the insurer was never truly the attorneys' client as a fiduciary to the plan.
August 19, 2019
Advanced Physicians SC on Friday slammed Cigna's bid to sack its suit in Texas federal court that accuses the insurer of violating the Employee Retirement Income Security Act by denying retired NFL football players' claims, arguing its claims are viable and the players authorized the clinic to sue.
July 15, 2019
Several Cigna units and an NFL health benefits plan have urged a Texas federal judge to sack an Employee Retirement Income Security Act suit over denied claims for retired football players and their families, arguing the medical clinic behind the case didn't show all the players it sought to represent had authorized it to sue.
April 17, 2019
A Texas federal judge on Wednesday shot down a medical clinic's bid for documents from Cigna about the insurer's handling of an NFL health benefits plan, saying the clinic can't invoke an exception to attorney-client privilege.
January 28, 2019
A medical clinic has urged a Texas federal judge to force Cigna to cough up a host of documents in a suit accusing several of the health insurer's units and an NFL health benefits plan of improperly denying insurance claims the clinic submitted on behalf of retired players and their families.