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<table border="0"><tr> <td valign="top">Key executives and 2006 payAs of June 2009:<ref>"[http://financewww.yahoocigna.com/qabout_us/executives/pr?s=CI CIGNA Key index.html About us: Executives], ''Yahoo Finance''" CIGNA website, accessed October 2007June 2009.</ref></td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td align="right">Options<br />exercised</td></tr><tr> <td>* [[H. Edward Hanway]], Chairman and Chief Executive Officer</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">, CIGNA Corporation - 2008 pay reported as $127.79 million,350,000plus $1.58 million in exercised options for the year </td> <tdref> </td> <td align="right">$14,440,000<[http:/td></tr><tr> <td>[[Michael Wfinance.yahoo. Bell]], Chief Financial Officer<com/td> <td> <q/td> <td alignpr?s="right">$4,300CI CIGNA profile],000</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">$2Yahoo! Finance,000,000accessed June 2009.</td></tr><trref> <td>* [[David M. Cordani]], President of , COO, CIGNA HealthCare</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">N/A</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">N/A</td></tr>Corporation<tr> <td>* [[Paul E. HartleyJeffrey Kang]], President of CIGNA International</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">$1MD,750MPH,000</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">$1Chief Medical Officer,000,000</td></tr>CIGNA Corporation<tr> <td>* [[John M. Murabito]], Executive Vice President of HR , Human Resources and Services</td>, CIGNA Corporation <td> </td> <td align="right">$1* [[Carol Ann Petren]],980Executive Vice President and General Counsel,000</td>CIGNA Corporation <td> </td> <td align="right">$961* [[Michael D. Woeller]], Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer,000</td></tr></table>CIGNA Corporation
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{{#Show badges: | tobaccowiki}}'''CIGNA''' is a major U.S. health insurance corporation, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. According to its website, CIGNA "provides health care and related benefits offered through the workplace. Key product lines include health care products and services (medical, pharmacy, behavioral health, clinical information management, dental and vision benefits, and case and disease management); and group disability, life and accident insurance. In addition, CIGNA also provides life, accident, health and expatriate employee benefits insurance coverage in selected international markets, primarily in Asia and Europe." In 2008, CIGNA reported $19.1 billion in revenues. <ref>"[http://www.cigna.com/about_us/investor_relations/index.html About us: Investor relations]," CIGNA website, accessed June 2009.</ref> CIGNA belongs to the insurance industry group [[America's Health Insurance Plans]] (AHIP). In June 2009, AHIP sent a letter to Senator [[Edward Kennedy]], warning of "devastating consequences" if Congress and the [[Obama administration]] included a public health insurance option in health care reform. A public option "would dismantle employer-based coverage, significantly increase costs for those who remain in private coverage, and add additional liabilities to the federal budget," the letter claimed. <ref>Patrick Yoest, "[http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124577178299042211.html Insurance Industry Warns on Health-Care Proposals]," ''Wall Street Journal'' (sub req'd), June 23, 2009.</ref> ==Public relations==In March 2009, ''PR Week'' reported that CIGNA had been "positioning itself" as a source of health information "for years as part of an overall effort to change the way Cigna does business because consumers have become more involved with their healthcare and prevention has become a bigger issue." CIGNA's director of corporate communications, [[Chris Curran]], said the company was "educating its consumers about the complex issue of [healthcare] reform," and had told its members "what it believes the role of the government should be and what individual insurance mandates should look like." <ref>Jaimy Lee, "[http://www.prweekus.com/Reform-spurs-healthcare-groups-into-action/article/128234/ Reform spurs healthcare groups into action]," ''PR Week'', March 4, 2009.</ref> In July 2008, CIGNA launched "an integrated national campaign ... to reinforce its rebranding as a health services company." The campaign, called "It's time to feel better," was "aimed at a consumer audience, although media outreach has included some b-to-b [business-to-business] and trade publications." The [[public relations firm]] [[Fleishman-Hillard]] worked on the campaign. CIGNA described the campaign as part of its efforts, going back to 2005, to rebrand "as a health services company and away from a health insurance company." <ref>Jaimy Lee, "[http://www.prweekus.com/Latest-Cigna-push-fortifies-its-rebranding/article/112793/ Latest Cigna push fortifies its rebranding]," ''PR Week'', July 23, 2008.</ref> As of February 2004, the firm [[Shirley & Banister Public Affairs]] listed CIGNA as a client on its website. <ref>"[http://web.archive.org/web/20040211082149/http://www.sbpublicaffairs.com/clients.htm Clients: Shirley & Banister Public Affairs]," as of February 11, 2004, via Archive.org (accessed June 2009).</ref> In 2001, CIGNA gave [[Weber Shandwick Worldwide]] its over $1 million public relations account. The firm was tasked with "showcas[ing] the Philadephia-based company's strengths in the healthcare arena," reported ''O'Dwyer's''. <ref>"[http://www.odwyerpr.com/members/archived_stories_2001/july/0723cigna.htm WSW Works to Boost Cigna's Profile]," ''O'Dwyer's PR Daily'' (sub req'd), July 23, 2001.</ref>
==Political and lobbying activities==
<ref>"[http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2983 Air America on Ad Blacklist?]", ''FAIR'', October 31, 2006.</ref>
<ref>"[http://www.fair.org/images/ABCmemo.pdf Air America Blackout]", ''FAIR.org/ABC memo'', October 25, 2006.</ref>
==Tobacco industry involvement==
===Censorship on behalf of Philip Morris===
[[Philip Morris]] worked with Cigna HealthCare between 1996 and 1999 to censor smoking-related information from health newsletters delivered to Philip Morris employees. E-mails written by managers at Philip Morris and Cigna show that between 1996 and 1999 the two companies shared information about the content of upcoming health articles, and that Cigna agreed to remove or to edit pieces that were objectionable to Philip Morris.
Both companies acknowledged to the Minneapolis Star Tribune that newsletters were censored, but they contended that it was done to help Philip Morris deal with an employee morale problem caused by lawsuits against the industry.
Howard Drescher, a spokesman for Cigna said, "Philip Morris was paying for a product that is specific to them and in that regard we have to listen to their requests." "We work with our customers to try to help them meet their business needs," he said.
The details of the arrangement came to light through documents obtained from the [[Minnesota Tobacco Document Depository]] as part of a lawsuit filed by Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans against the tobacco industry. The depository was established under the 1998 settlement of Minnesota's lawsuit. Public health advocates contended that the arrangement between Philip Morris and Cigna was not as benign as the companies claim. It suggests, they said, that Philip Morris and Cigna were willing to put business concerns before health concerns for employees.
"If they [Cigna officials] deliberately took out information that would otherwise be included, and as result there was a health problem, there could be liability," said [[John F. Banzhaf, III|John Banzhaf]] of the Washington, D .C.-based [[Action on Smoking and Health, US]]. Cigna, at the time the country's third-largest health insurer, was paid by Philip Morris to produce a special edition of its
quarterly "Well-Being" newsletter for Philip Morris, which includes [[Kraft Foods]] and [[Miller Beer]].
Cigna provided health insurance for Philip Morris employees since 1992. Its edited newsletters were only
distributed to Philip Morris and Kraft employees that chose to be insured by Cigna.<ref>G. Howatt, Minneapolis Star Tribune [http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/utw75c00 Tobacco Documents Reveal Censorship Agreement with Insurer] Newspaper article. 3 pp. 1999. Bates No. 2078039368A/9370</ref><ref>Associated Press [http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/fge92c00 Cigna edits out smoking warnings] March 20, 2000.Bates No. 2082105791/5792</ref>
==Nataline Sarkisyan incident, 2007==
Nataline Sarkisyan was a 17 year old teenager from Glendale, California who had leukemia. She received a bone marrow transplant from her brother, but became sicker. Her doctors recommended she receive a liver transplant but her insurance company, Cigna, denied the operation. The family went to the media with the story of Cigna's denial of treatment for their dying daughter, and a group of teenagers and nurses protested the denial of healthcare outside Cigna's offices. Doctors at the UCLA Medical Center signed a letter urging Cigna to review its decision, and in the meantime sedated Nataline into a coma to stabilize her as the family filed appeals in the case. During the protest, Nataline's mother received a call from Cigna saying they approved the liver transplant, but it was too late. Her that her daughter's condition had worsened. The family was forced to make the decision to remove her from life support, and she died shortly after. The family retained attorney [[Mark Geragos]] to sue Cigna over the delayed denial. Geragos said that Cigna had "maliciously killed" Nataline and that he hoped to press murder or manslaughter charges against Cigna HealthCare for her death.<ref> ABC News [http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/CancerPreventionAndTreatment/Story?id=4038257&page=1 Health Insurer to Be Charged With Teen's Murder: California Family Will Sue Medical Insurer for Delaying a Potentially Lifesaving Surgery], December 21, 2007. Accessed July 14, 2009</ref>
==Personnel==
===Board of Directors===
As of January 2009: <ref>"[http://www.cigna.com/about_us/governance/board.html Board of DirectorsAbout us: Corporate governance], " CIGNAwebsite, accessed October 2007June 2009.</ref>*[[Robert H. Campbell]], Former - former Chairman of [[Sunoco]] and Chief Executive Officer a Director of [[SunocoVical]], Inc.*[[H. Edward Hanway]]*[[Isaiah Harris, Jr.]], Former - former President and Chief Executive Officer of [[AT&T]] Advertising & Publishing - East, former President of [[BellSouth Enterprises]] and a Director of [[Deluxe Corporation]]*[[Jane E. Henney]], M.D. - University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and a Director of [[AmerisourceBergen]] Corporation and [[AstraZeneca]] PLC*[[Peter N. Larson]] - former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of [[Brunswick Corporation]]*[[Roman Martinez IV]] - a Director of [[Alliant Techsystems]], Former Commissioner Inc. and [[Bacardi]] Limited*[[John M. Partridge]] - former Chief Operating Officer of [[Visa]] Inc. and President and Chief Executive Officer of [[Inovant]]*[[James E. Rogers]] - [[Duke Energy]] Corporation*[[Carol Cox Wait]] - [[Boggs, Atkinson, Inc.]]; General Manager for Artesia, Bellflower and Ramona Senior Centers, a Managing Member of Lakewood Towers LLC and Manager of VCB Bluebird LLC and VCB Palm LLC; former Director, President and Chief Executive Officer of the [[Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget]]; and former President of [[Carol Cox and Associates]]*[[Eric C. Wiseman]] - former Chairman of [[VF Corporation]], former Vice President and Chairman of the [[Sportswear and Outdoor Coalitions]] and former Vice President and Chairman of the [[Global Intimates and Sportswear Coalition]]*[[Donna F. Zarcone]] - Executive Officer of [[D. F. Zarcone & Associates]], LLC, a strategic advisory consulting firm; former President and Chief Operating Officer of [[Harley-Davidson]] Financial Services, Inc.; a Director of [[Jones Apparel Group]], Inc. and a member of the Board of Managers of [[Wrightwood Capital]]*[[UWilliam D.SZollars]] - President and Chief Executive Officer of [[YRC Worldwide]], Inc. Food and Drug Administrationa Director of [[ProLogis Trust]] and [[Cerner Corporation]]
===Former personnel===
===Related SourceWatch articles===
* [[Air America Radio]]
* [[America's Health Insurance Plans]]
* [[Fleishman-Hillard]]
* [[Health Benefits Coalition]]
* [[Humana]]
* [[Insurance industry]]
* [[LatinInsights]]
* [[Shirley & Banister Public Affairs]]
* [[Weber Shandwick Worldwide]]
*[[Eric J. Foss]]
===References===
