The Dec. 4 murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson brought back into the public spotlight advocates of socialized medicine.

UnitedHealth Group on Thursday named Tim Noel, the head of its Medicare business, to the top job at its health insurance business, a month after the unit’s former CEO Brian Thompson was killed.

UnitedHealth Group Inc. promoted the head of its Medicare health plan business to lead the company’s broader insurance division, filling the job previously held by slain executive Brian Thompson. Tim Noel,

UnitedHealthcare named Tim Noel as the company's new CEO on Thursday after the former one, Brian Thompson, was killed in Manhattan in December.

UnitedHealth Group named Tim Noel the new CEO of the company's insurance division, UnitedHealthcare, after the targeted killing of former CEO Brian Thompson.

The company said Thursday that Tim Noel will be CEO of UnitedHealthcare, replacing Brian Thompson, who was killed in New York City in December.

UnitedHealth Group (UNH) announced a new chief executive officer for its health insurance unit, UnitedHealthcare, Thursday, filling the role after Brian Thompson was shot to death last month in ...

Following the brutal killing of former UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson, recent developments have revealed that UnitedHealth has eventually appointed a new CEO.

Shares in the insurance provider dropped after the firm disclosed its first earnings report since the shocking assassination of Brian Thompson, its insurance branch’s chief executive.

The new CEO of Minnesota-based UnitedHealthcare takes the helm of a company whose former leader was killed in December.

Six weeks after Brian Thompson was gunned down in the streets of Manhattan, UHC announced that it was naming Tim Noel, who formerly ran the insurance company's Medicare and retirement department, to the chief executive role. Almost as soon as that news dropped, social media lit up with gallows humor about the position's deadly history.