Cigna Property & Casualty v. Ruiz

This is an appeal from an income deduction order requiring Cigna Property & Casualty (“Cigna”) to withhold certain sums owing to its insured, Antonio Ruiz, and to remit the same to Teresa Villar Ruiz, as child support for the Ruiz’s minor child. Cigna maintains that because the anti-alienation provision of the Longshore and Harbor Worker’s Compensation Act (“LHWCA”) under which Antonio Ruiz was receiving his benefits from Cigna exempted all claims of creditors, the income deduction order is erroneous. We do not agree that the anti-alienation provision of LHWCA is applicable to Ruiz’s child…