Alexander v. Cigna Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that defendant’s statements that contractual relationship between the parties “would be long lasting,” and that the “agreement one in ‘perpetuity’” were merely predictions of future events and could not form basis for a fraud claim
• explaining that that “future or contingent events, to expectations or probabilities, or as to what will or will not be done in the future, do not constitute misrepresentations.”
• statements that “relationship would be long lasting,” “agreement one in perpetuity”, “...part of future plans,” “...1nto the twenty-first century and beyond” were all non-actionable
• “predictions of the future, which were believed when made, cannot serve as a basis for a fraud claim just because they subsequently turn out not to be true.”
• “predictions of the future, which were believed when made, cannot serve as a basis for a fraud claim just because they subsequently turn out not to be true.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).