Legal Opinion
Cigna Healthcare of St. Louis, Inc. v. Timothy N. Kaiser
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 31, 2002No. 02-1278PublishedCited by 62 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This appeal from the dismissal of a suit seeking an order to arbitrate requires us to consider the intersection of class actions, arbitration, and Colorado River (parallel-proceeding) abstention. Underlying the appeal is a dispute between a group of affiliated corporations (CIGNA for short) and 288,000 (!) physicians, hospitals, and other providers of health care with which CIGNA, an administrator of employee health-benefits plans, has contracts for the provision of health care to the participants in the plans. Under these “managed care” contracts, as they are known,…
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