UnitedHealth Group announced a new chief executive Tuesday, a sudden and surprising change following the fatal shooting in December of its UnitedHealthcare subsidiary’s leader.

Andrew Witty stepped down from leading UnitedHealth for unspecified “personal reasons,” the company said. Stephen J. Hemsley, who served as chief executive from 2006 to 2017, will return to the role and remain board chairman. Witty will serve as a senior adviser to Hemsley, the company said in a news release.

UnitedHealth has been the focus of sharp criticism over the health insurance industry’s practices and has seen its stock plummet in the past year. The Justice Department has investigated its business activities.

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      Unfortunately it’s probably because the shareholders are currently suing UH because after Luigi was charged, UH started actually not denying claims anymore for a bit…this aggravated them and they are saying that they were not made aware of the “impact” this change would make to their share values

      Human scum

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        To add to this, innocent until proven guilty, and while Luigi is being dragged through the system, it is proper posting to not state that he did it until a verdict is read.

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        This is how they really are. They don’t care at all. It’s so hard to fathom. I can only relate this to fictional evil characters, but these are many real people. They know exactly the harm and destruction they cause, but we are less than ants to them.