CIGNA International Releases New Transactional Web Portal; Medical Translations, Online Weight Management Offered

Business Wire, Oct 9, 2008

CLAYMONT, Del. -- CIGNA International Expatriate Benefits (CIEB) today released a new transactional web portal, CIGNA Envoy, for individual and employer customers, brokers, doctors and physicians.

CIGNA Envoy (www.CIGNAenvoy.com) offers advanced web tools that help ease benefits administration for employers and enable covered individuals to access benefit information anywhere in the world. The new web portal includes mobile medical translation tools, pod casts, printable medical ID cards, and online benefits enrollment.

"CIGNA Envoy will better serve our customers and simplify the process of administering benefits for employers. The new web portal will provide user-friendly web resources convenient for expatriates and business travelers, their doctors, and their employers," said Jim Blestowe, CIEB's director of Information Technology.

CIGNA Envoy users can access medical translation tools from a computer or a web-enabled phone to search for translations of medical terms and phrases as well as generic and brand name drugs. Expatriates and employers can listen to pod casts on a computer or download them to an MP3 player and listen wherever and whenever they like. CIGNA Envoy also offers online weight and medical condition management resources.

CIEB, for more than 30 years, has been the industry leader for providing benefits to global workers. As an organization dedicated to the needs of international employers and their globally mobile workforce, all of CIEB's activities are motivated by the same objectives: enhancing the expatriate experience and keeping employees healthy and on assignment. CIEB believes all expatriate employees deserve access to quality health care no matter where they work in the world. CIEB offers a full line of expatriate coverage.

CIGNA (NYSE:CI), a global health service company, is dedicated to helping people improve their health, well-being and security. CIGNA Corporation's operating subsidiaries provide an integrated suite of medical, dental, behavioral health, pharmacy and vision care benefits, as well as group life, accident and disability insurance, to approximately 47 million people throughout the United States and around the world. To learn more about CIGNA, visit www.cigna.com.