A group of investors sued UnitedHealthcare Group on Wednesday, accusing the company of misleading them after the killing of its CEO, Brian Thompson.

The class action lawsuit — filed in the Southern District of New York — accuses the health insurance company of not initially adjusting their 2025 net earning outlook to factor in how Thompson’s killing would affect their operations.

The group, which is seeking unspecified damages, argued that the public backlash prevented the company from pursuing “the aggressive, anti-consumer tactics that it would need to achieve” its earnings goals.

  • tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    23 hours ago

    It’s as simple as this, my mom explained it to me at 8 years old: “A lot of parents give their kids money for good grades or doing chores, but that teaches them to do things for the money and not because it’s the right thing to do.”

    It’s a habit, like a drug addiction, your brain is rewarded by profit and molds itself around that, altering your view of right and wrong.