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UnitedHealth Is Sick of Everyone Complaining About Its Claim Denials


Two months after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was killed, the insurer's parent company is going after people who say it denies too many claims.

Responding to a slew of attacks online, often coupled with the glorification of Luigi Mangione(who was charged with Thompson’s murder outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel in December, and allegedly wrote a short manifesto calling health insurers “parasites”), the company has hired a law firm that specializes in defamation cases. Clare Locke, the Virginia-based practice, previously represented Dominion Voting Systems in a bombshell defamation suit that saw Fox News pay a settlement of$787.5 million for airing false allegations about the company’s supposed role in voter fraud during the 2020 election. “Health insurance has long been subject to significant regulatory oversight and earnings caps,” UnitedHealth said in a statement responding to the outspoken investor, one of many ultra-wealthy figures to back Trump in 2024 and post prolifically on social media about how only the MAGA movement could save the country.

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