Company: CI
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001739940-25-000015
Chunk: 7

Company: Cigna Group
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 7
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| PROXY STATEMENT SUMMARY |

#### Key Governance Practices
| Independence                                                                                               |     | Best Practices                                                                                                                          |     | Accountability                                                                                                                                        |     | Shareholder Rights                                                                                                                                                   |
| •Other than the Chair/CEO, all directors are independent                                                   
 •Lead Independent Director with clearly defined responsibilities                                           
 •100% independent Audit, Compliance, Corporate Governance, Finance, and People Resources Committees        
 •Regular meetings of the independent directors of the Board and its committees, without management present 
 •Board and its committees may hire outside advisors independently of management                            |     | •Active shareholder engagement                                                                                                          
 •Diverse Board in terms of experiences, specific skills and qualifications, tenure, gender, race, ethnicity, abilities, and backgrounds 
 •Board policy to ensure individuals from underrepresented backgrounds included in candidate pool for all director searches              
 •Separate Code of Business Conduct and Ethics for the Board                                                                             
 •Majority of director compensation delivered in common stock of The Cigna Group                                                         
 •Robust stock ownership guidelines for directors                                                                                        |     | •Annual election of all directors                                                                                                                     
 •Directors elected by majority vote standard for uncontested election                                                                                 
 •Annual self-evaluations of the Board, its committees, and individual directors, which, in 2024, included a third-party facilitator and peer feedback 
 •Annual evaluation of the Board leadership structure                                                                                                  
 •Annual evaluation of CEO (including compensation) by independent directors                                                                           
 •Clawback policies that comply with and go beyond the requirements of the Dodd-Frank Act and NYSE rules                                               |     | •Shareholder right to call a special meeting                                                                                                                         
 •Proxy access right allowing shareholders to include their nominees in proxy materials for election at annual meetings                                               
 •Shareholder right to amend our Certificate of Incorporation or By-Laws with support of holders of a majority of outstanding stock; no supermajority vote provisions 
 •No shareholder rights plan or poison pill                                                                                                                           |

#### Shareholder Engagement
The Board and the Corporate Governance Committee oversee the Company’s shareholder engagement practices. Our engagement with shareholders helps us better understand our shareholders’ priorities and perspectives. The Board considers feedback and insights from our shareholders as it reviews and evolves our governance and executive compensation practices and disclosures.

We engage with shareholders throughout the year on a number of topics related to corporate governance, executive compensation, corporate responsibility, Company performance, and other areas of focus for shareholders. Since the filing of our 2024 proxy statement, we engaged on governance-related topics with holders of approximately