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UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson shot and killed in New York
Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was fatally shot in Midtown Manhattan early Wednesday morning while walking toward the New York Hilton
Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was fatally shot in Midtown Manhattan early Wednesday morning while walking toward the New York Hilton Midtown for his company’s annual investor conference. Thompson, 50, was named CEO of UnitedHealthcare — the biggest health insurer in the U.S. — in April 2021 after a long career with the company that began when he joined as a director of corporate development in early 2004. UnitedHealthcare revealed in October that more than 100 million individuals had their private health information stolen during the ransomware attack on one of its subsidiaries, Change Healthcare, in February, a cyberattack that caused months of unprecedented outages and widespread disruption across the U.S. healthcare sector.
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