UnitedHealthcare named a company veteran, Tim Noel, as its CEO seven weeks after former CEO Brian Thompson was killed in New York. Noel joined the company in 2007 and was most recently the head of its Medicare and retirement unit,

The company is still reeling from the murder of Thompson, which unleashed a torrent of pent-up anger and resentment toward the insurance industry.

Tim Noel is the new UnitedHealthcare CEO following the Dec. 4 targeted killing of its former top executive, Brian Thompson, in Manhattan.

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 New York City.

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,

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

UnitedHealth Group 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.

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.

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

UnitedHealthcare has a new chief executive seven weeks after former CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed in New York City.

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

In 2000, in response to the frustration of 23 million California HMO consumers, I was appointed by then-California Gov. Gray Davis to be the nation’s first “HMO czar.” The new agency I was running was the largest health reform project in the country since the Great Society of the late 1960s and remained so until Obamacare came along.