Cigna Sues CVS, New Pharmacy Executive Over Noncompete (2)

Cigna Corp. sued CVS Health Corp. and its new chief product officer Amy Bricker for allegedly violating her noncompete agreement.

Bricker served as the head of Cigna’s Express Scripts pharmacy benefits unit, and her appointment to CVS was announced earlier this week. The lawsuit comes within weeks of the Federal Trade Commission’s proposed ban on noncompete clauses in employment contracts.

Her new role would “inevitably require her to use and disclose Cigna’s confidential and trade secret business information,” Cigna said in the complaint filed Thursday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. Assuming the role would ...