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E-8CIGNA CORPORATION2011 Form10K
PART IV
ITEM 15 Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules
PART IV Schedules
EXHIBIT 31.1 Certification
I, DAVID M. CORDANI, certify that:
1. I have reviewed this Annual Report on Form10-K of Cigna
Corporation;
2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue
statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary
to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under
which such statements were made, not misleading with respect
to the period covered by this report;
3. Based on my knowledge, the nancial statements, and other
nancial information included in this report, fairly present in all
material respects the nancial condition, results of operations and
cash ows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented
in this report;
4. e registrant’s other certifying ocer(s) and I are responsible for
establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures
(as dened in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and
internal control over nancial reporting (as dened in Exchange
Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have:
a) designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused
such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under
our supervision, to ensure that material information relating
to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is
made known to us by others within those entities, particularly
during the period in which this report is being prepared;
b) designed such internal control over nancial reporting,
or caused such internal control over nancial reporting to
be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable
assurance regarding the reliability of nancial reporting and
the preparation of nancial statements for external purposes
in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;
c) evaluated the eectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure
controls and procedures and presented in this report our
conclusions about the eectiveness of the disclosure controls
and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this
report based on such evaluation; and
d) disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal
control over nancial reporting that occurred during the
registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s
fourth scal quarter in the case of an annual report) that
has materially aected, or is reasonably likely to materially
aect, the registrant’s internal control over nancial reporting;
and
5. e registrant’s other certifying ocer(s) and I have disclosed, based
on our most recent evaluation of internal control over nancial
reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee
of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the
equivalent functions):
a) all signicant deciencies and material weaknesses in the
design or operation of internal control over nancial reporting
which are reasonably likely to adversely aect the registrant’s
ability to record, process, summarize and report nancial
information; and
b) any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management
or other employees who have a signicant role in the
registrant’s internal control over nancial reporting.
/s/ David M. Cordani
Chief Executive Ocer
Date: February23,2012
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