Investigators find eerie news about the assassination of the CEO of a US health insurance company by bullets

New York, December 5 Investigators have found eerie messages on bullet casings found where the CEO of the largest U.S. health insurance company was killed that could provide clues to the shooter’s motivation.

Police said Thursday that the words “deny,” “depose” and “defend” were found on three bullets.

The terms “deny” and “deny” are used by insurance companies when they refuse to pay for treatments on the grounds that they are not covered by the policies.

This could lead to a person filing a complaint against United Healthcare (UHC), which Brian Thompson was leading until Wednesday when he was shot outside a Hilton hotel in central New York where his company was holding an investor meeting.

Police sought search warrants for the mysterious gunman who waited outside the hotel, shot him from about 10 feet away, unlocked the .9mm gun with a silencer and fled on a rented electric bicycle.

The masked man’s trail was covered in nearby Central Park and a large-scale manhunt began.

Three live bullets, three spent shells, a water bottle from a Starbucks coffee shop and an abandoned cellphone that police found near the shooting site may hold clues.

The words “deny,” “deny,” and “defend” had certain similarities to the title of a book criticizing the insurance industry, “Delay Deny Defend: Why Insurance Companies Don’t Pay Claims and What You Can Do About It.” , by Jay Feinman.

A blurb for the book on Amazon described the author as a legal scholar and insurance expert and said it was about how “insurance companies today often seek to delay payment of legitimate claims, refuse to pay outright, and defend these lawsuits by coercing plaintiffs.” to initiate legal proceedings.” ”

A Senate panel report criticized UHC for its high claim denial rate.

Thompson, 50, became CEO of Minnesota-based UHC in 2021 after rising through the ranks during his 20-year career at the company.

His annual salary was nearly $10 million and he led the company with 140,000 employees and annual sales of $281 billion.

After waiting for Thompson, the gunman firing behind him hit him in the leg and chest.

Security footage shows him quickly resetting the gun after it jams and continuing to fire.

Police Chief Joseph Kenny said: “It appears he is proficient with firearms as he was able to resolve the disturbance fairly quickly.”

The annual ritual of lighting the Christmas tree at nearby Rockefeller Center passed peacefully Wednesday evening. Tens of thousands of people crowded the streets around the area after officials assured that the shooting was targeted and not a random crime.

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