Advanced Physicians SC v. Connecticut General Life Insurance Company et al

  1. March 11, 2022

    Cigna, NFL Plan Attys Settle With Doctors Over Fees

    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.

  2. July 23, 2021

    Cigna, NFL Attys Seek $1M Payout In Insurance Claims Defeat

    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.

  3. July 09, 2021

    Cigna Beats ERISA Suit Over NFL Players' Health Benefits

    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.

  4. March 11, 2020

    Texas Judge Won't Rethink Privilege Ruling In NFL ERISA Suit

    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.

  5. February 12, 2020

    Cigna Wants Redo On Privilege Ruling In NFL ERISA Suit

    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.

  6. January 06, 2020

    Cigna Can't Use Privilege To Shield Info In NFL ERISA Suit

    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.

  7. August 19, 2019

    Ex-NFL Players Signed Off On Clinic's ERISA Suit, Judge Told

    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.

  8. July 15, 2019

    NFL Health Plan, Cigna Units Look To Spike ERISA Suit

    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.  

  9. April 17, 2019

    Cigna Won't Have To Hand Over Docs In NFL Health Plan Suit

    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.

  10. January 28, 2019

    Clinic Fights For Cigna Docs In Row Over NFL Health Plan

    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.