Cigna Scores Partial Revival of Medical Lab Fraudulent Bill Suit

Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. will get another chance to sue laboratory testing companies over more than $17 million in allegedly fraudulent bills after the Second Circuit held Wednesday that the insurer’s federal claims weren’t barred by Connecticut’s three-year deadline to sue.

Cigna’s claims under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act and the Declaratory Judgment Act aren’t subject to a statute of limitations and shouldn’t have been dismissed as untimely, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held. These federal claims lack their own statute of limitations and instead borrow their deadline from the most similar state law ...