Bloomberg Law
April 2, 2019, 2:48 PM UTC

Cigna Affiliate Owes Fees After ‘Blameworthy’ Benefit Denial

Jacklyn Wille
Jacklyn Wille
Reporter

Life Insurance Co. of North America was “about as culpable as it otherwise could get” in denying disability benefits to a woman with chronic pain, according to a Sixth Circuit opinion forcing the Cigna-owned insurer to pay the woman’s attorneys’ fees.

LINA repeatedly discounted evidence of Kimberly Guest-Marcotte’s disability without physically examining her and engaged in unfair “goal-post-moving” in the course of handling her benefits claim, a split panel of Sixth Circuit judges held April 1. The panel ordered LINA to pay Guest-Marcotte’s attorneys’ fees, saying the insurer’s bad behavior warranted the “rare” step of reversing a district judge’s decision ...

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