Cigna
Cigna is an American worldwide health services organization based in suburban Bloomfield, Connecticut and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its insurance subsidiaries are major providers of medical, dental, disability, life and accident insurance and related products and services, the majority of which are offered through employers and other groups (e.g. governmental and non-governmental organizations, unions and associations)
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Workers Beware: Forced Arbitration Can Happen To You
Bretta Karp began working for Cigna in 1997. Over the years, Ms. Karp allegedly observed a pattern of gender discrimination at Cigna. In 2011, Ms. Karp brought a class action lawsuit alleging Cigna, “through its policies . . . engaged in systematic gender discrimination . . . and subject[ed] women to gender-based hostility.”. Because Cigna successfully invoked the company’s Employment Dispute Arbitration Policy, Ms. Karp’s case was resolved in individual private arbitration and denied public scrutiny Karp v. Cigna Healthcare, Inc.
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