{"id":82,"date":"2007-12-27T09:07:46","date_gmt":"2007-12-27T14:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kim.thewei.com\/20071227\/cigna-guilty-in-teen-clients-death\/"},"modified":"2013-12-13T08:15:31","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T13:15:31","slug":"cigna-guilty-in-teen-clients-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/cigna-guilty-in-teen-clients-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Cigna guilty in teen client&#8217;s death?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>The family of a California teenager plan to sue her health insurer which refused to pay for a liver transplant until hours before and she died on Thursday night. \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her family . . . will ask the Los Angeles district attorney to press murder or manslaughter charges against Cigna HealthCare, arguing that the firm &#8220;maliciously killed&#8221; Nataline Sarkisyan by its reluctance to pay for her treatment. Although she was fully insured and had a matching donor, Cigna refused to pay . . . .\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The company recently posted figures for its third-quarter performance this year, which showed profits up 22%. Next year it expects to earn an income of up to $1.2bn.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Jump to full <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/usa\/story\/0,,2231379,00.html\">Guardian article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The family of a California teenager plan to sue her health insurer which refused to pay for a liver transplant until hours before and she died on Thursday night. \u00c2\u00a0 Her family . . . will ask the Los Angeles district attorney to press murder or manslaughter charges against Cigna HealthCare, arguing that the firm &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/cigna-guilty-in-teen-clients-death\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cigna guilty in teen client&#8217;s death?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-trade","category-transformation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4578,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/4578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}