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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      21 hours ago

      Why? Cause people will cry on the internet about it and do literally nothing else? They have no reason to be afraid

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          I’m not here to jump on the negativity train, but it is a fair observation that it’s not like there’s been a ton of copy cats out there starting a movement.

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            yea, they quickly quashed the news of Luigi, like 2-3 weeks into his capture , so as to not motivate more people to do this.