Claims for benefits have increased by 25 percent since 2007, pushing the fund that supports the disability program to the brink of insolvency.

Some of Americas biggest corporations IBM, Home Depot and Wal-Mart, among them are hoping to seize control over health care costs, or at least some measure of it.

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The plaintiffs alleged that CIGNA operated the 401(k) plan not in the best interests of employees, as required by ERISA, but for the benefit of CIGNAs bottom line.