Cigna Used Covid-19 Hospital Surge to Deny Benefits, Suit Says

Cigna Health & Life Insurance Co. was sued in Connecticut federal court by a woman who said the insurer wrongly refused to cover her $10,300 medical bill from a plastic surgeon because a flood of Covid-19 patients forced her to seek treatment in a private office, rather than the emergency room.

Dinah Nissen’s lawsuit, filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, accuses Cigna of denying coverage for the emergency care she received from a plastic surgeon after suffering a severe dog bite on her face in May 2020. Nissen says she was referred to a ...