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UnitedHealth Group’s CEO eulogized his slain colleague Brian Thompson in a New York Times op-ed.Thompson’s shooting sparked a nationwide debate about the state of the health insurance industry.Witty’s op-ed faced fierce online criticism from people who said it didn’t offer solutions.The head of UnitedHealth Group, the parent company of UnitedHealthcare,…
By Julio-Cesar Chavez and Rich McKay ALTOONA, Pennsylvania (Reuters) -The 26-year-old man accused of gunning down UnitedHealth executive Brian Thompson in Manhattan intends to fight his extradition to New York to face murder charges from Pennsylvania, where he was arrested, his defense lawyer told a judge at a hearing on…
(Reuters) – Authorities have identified the man suspected of killing UnitedHealth (NYSE:) executive Brian Thompson and are closing in on him, New York City Mayor Eric Adams was quoted as saying on Saturday by the New York Post. “The net is tightening,” Adams told reporters at a Police Athletic League…
Friday’s market has seen notable fluctuations across various stocks, influenced by recent news and market activities. Stocks like Avago Technologies (NASDAQ:) and Facebook Inc (META) experienced significant gains, while UnitedHealth Group (UNH) faced a downturn. Here are some of the day’s most impactful stock movers, spanning from mega-caps to small…
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Armed with a growing file of clues, New York police on Friday were scouring surveillance videos and asking the public for help in their search for the masked assailant who gunned down a UnitedHealth executive on a Midtown Manhattan sidewalk. Brian Thompson, 50, the CEO of…
By Amina Niasse and Manas Mishra NEW YORK (Reuters) – Health insurance companies are reassessing the risks for their top executives after the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on Wednesday in Manhattan, with both UnitedHealth and rival CVS Health (NYSE:) removing photos of their leadership teams from their websites…
By Amina Niasse and Sriparna Roy (Reuters) -CVS Health on Wednesday named Steve Nelson, a former UnitedHealth (NYSE:) insurance head, to run its Aetna business, where rising medical costs in the third quarter caused the company to preannounce an earnings miss last month. The company last month also replaced CEO…
By Leroy Leo and Sriparna Roy (Reuters) – Smaller rivals to UnitedHealth (NYSE:)’s tech unit Change Healthcare (NASDAQ:) say they are signing longer-term contracts with hospitals and other customers who had temporarily switched from the company after February’s cyberattack shut down the unit’s services. The new contracts landed by Waystar…
By Sriparna Roy, Mariam Sunny and Amina Niasse (Reuters) -UnitedHealth on Tuesday forecast a bigger hit to earnings this year from a February hack at its tech unit as it notifies customers and provides loans to affected health providers, and said it was working to restore all operations. The hack…
By Shashwat Chauhan and Shristi Achar A (Reuters) – The outshone its peers on Tuesday following upbeat results from health insurer UnitedHealth, while higher Treasury yields and conflict in the Middle East kept investors on edge. Dow Component UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:) advanced 5.9% after the health insurer beat expectations for…
