Ex-Cigna Executive Barred From Joining CVS, 8th Cir. Affirms (1)

The former president of Cigna Corp.'s Express Scripts failed to overturn an order that bars her from taking an executive position at CVS Pharmacy Inc. while a lawsuit over her noncompete agreement moves forward.

The district court rightly found Amy Bricker’s two-year noncompete period is likely reasonable and enforceable because the health-care companies are each other’s chief rivals and “practically mirror images of one another,” the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit said in an opinion issued Wednesday.

The harms that Bricker and CVS suffer under a preliminary injunction are small compared with Cigna’s harm if its trade ...