Cigna Victory Against Texas Hospital Won’t Be Reviewed by SCOTUS

Humble Surgical Hospital LLC lost its bid to have the U.S. Supreme Court reinstate a $16.4 million award issued against a Cigna Corp. subsidiary over how it allegedly underpaid medical claims and failed to disclose plan documents.

The Supreme Court denied May 14 Humble Surgical’s petition to review a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit decision that reversed the multimillion-dollar judgment against Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. The Fifth Circuit held that the district court failed to consider whether Cigna’s plan interpretation of its exclusionary payment clause—which provided that if an insured had no obligation to pay for ...