Accenture Worker Sues Cigna Unit for Long Covid Disability Pay

An Accenture software developer who contracted Covid-19 in March 2020 while five months pregnant sued Life Insurance Co. of North America in federal court in Seattle on Tuesday, claiming the insurer owes her disability benefits for her long-haul symptoms.

The developer, who says she was “one of the first people in the Seattle area to be diagnosed with COVID-19 in March 2020,” says LINA paid her short-term disability benefits after her lingering symptoms left her unable to return to work following her maternity leave. LINA—a subsidiary of Cigna Corp.—then wrongly denied her claim for long-term disability pay after these short-term ...