About Cigna New Zealand

Cigna New Zealand is a leading specialist provider of life insurance, identity theft protection, funeral insurance, income protection insurance, accidental death insurance, and trauma insurance products and services. We've been operating in New Zealand for over 90 years, and now protect more than 275,000 New Zealanders with our insurance policies.

Cigna New Zealand is part of Cigna Corporation, a Fortune 500 company and one of the world's largest publicly-owned insurance and financial services companies. Cigna Corporation has a long tradition of service stretching back over 200 years.

In New Zealand, we offer Cigna branded products through best-practice direct marketing. We also make our products available to partner companies to retail in their own names.

Cigna New Zealand has a history of continuous innovations in the insurance industry and an uncompromising commitment to service excellence.

Cigna Life Insurance NZ Limited ("Cigna") has an A- (Excellent) financial strength rating which was given by A.M Best Company Inc. The rating scale is:

Secure Vulnerable
A++ A+ Superior B B- Fair
A A- Excellent C++ C+ Marginal
B++ B + Good C C- Weak
      D   Poor
      E   Under regulatory Supervision
      F   In Liquidation
      S   Suspended

Whether you are a Cigna New Zealand insurance policyholder, are thinking about one of our policies, or are considering working with us either as an employee or partner, our website has information and services to help you. Or contact us at any time regarding your Cigna New Zealand policy, or any of our insurance products and services.

Our Values

We exist to help the people we serve improve their health, well-being and security.

Have the Best People

  • Commit to being the best and having the best people working collaboratively toward common goals
  • Constantly upgrade skills and capabilities
  • Seek, manage and embrace diversity in sources, backgrounds, experiences and points of view

Know Our Customers

  • Develop "customer insights capability" that is world-class
  • Understand unmet and latent needs
  • Leverage those insights across everything we do

Nail the basics

  • Flawlessly execute the fundamentals
  • Identify and eliminate customer "pain points"
  • Meet or beat customer needs

Improve all the time

  • Get better every day, every month, every year
  • Drive continuous cost and quality improvement
  • Be a "learning organisation;" have a thirst for new ideas; refresh our "view of the future"
  • Innovate like crazy; experiment, using pilots to learn

Live and breathe performance

  • Demonstrate and demand personal accountability, owning results, rewards and consequences
  • Continuously upgrade performance standards
  • Ensure resources (time, money, people, mindshare) are aligned to maximize value creation

Our History

Cigna New Zealand is part of Cigna Corporation, a Fortune 500 company and one of the world's largest publicly-owned insurance and financial services companies. Cigna Corporation has over two centuries of experience, stretching back to its origins in the the US with Connecticut General (CG) and the Insurance Company of North America (INA).

International Strength

Cigna's international operations began in the late 19th century when INA marketed insurance on three continents through general agents, and later through foreign offices. Cigna's other founding company, Connecticut General traded internationally from 1962.

In 1984, Cigna Worldwide was formed and became one of the largest international insurance operations. From our American roots in Philadelphia and Hartford, we have branched into Asia and the Pacific Rim countries, into Europe and throughout the Americas.

Today, Cigna is one of a handful of organisations that offers truly international insurance, benefits and financial products and services. In major markets around the world, Cigna Corporation's operating subsidiaries provide an integrated suite of medical, dental, behavioural health, pharmacy and vision care benefits, as well as group life, accident and disability insurance, to approximately 46 million people.

New Zealand operations

In New Zealand, Cigna's heritage dates back over 85 years to just after the First World War. We evolved out of two insurance companies, INA, which started conducting business in New Zealand in 1919 and Monarch Life Insurance Limited, which was first registered in 1968.

In 1986, after various mergers and takeovers, Cigna Life Insurance New Zealand Limited was born. We now protect more than 275,000 New Zealanders with policies ranging from disability cover to term life insurance.