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Murder and Social Murder: The Case of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson

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Murder and Social Murder: The Case of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson

Rolling Stone noted something that people on Twitter and TikTok have already noticed. Social media has little sympathy for the slain health insurance executive.. At this point, there has been relatively little new news about the murder of UnitedHealth’s Brian Thompson in Manhattan, even a day after the incident.1 Police are under huge pressure to solve high-profile murders quickly. The gunman appears to have been nearby before the shooting occurred. It’s still unclear how much time has passed. He shot Thompson twice, once in the calf and once in the torso. A firearms expert (whose tweetstorm is below) explains how the weapon selection and gun handling methods captured on film tell you he’s not a pro.2

In case you haven’t heard of it yet, UnitedHealth was the leading company to deny insurance claims. This is a widespread scam by these companies. The tweet story below is not a barely coded view that Thompson’s death was karma, but rather a denial of claims he profited from, resulting in hundreds, even thousands, of preventable deaths, not dozens, even though vigilante justice is not a socially desirable approach. It shows that something happened. To achieve correction.

Honestly, I’m surprised this didn’t happen sooner. It’s not hard to think of cases where top executives kill people for fun and profit. Ford Pintos. Purdue Pharma leads the way, but not the only actor: manufacturers of addictive opioids shape their sales strategies. Vioxx’s manipulation of clinical trial data by Merck to hide additional heart attack deaths was so frequent that when the drug was taken off the market, U.S. death rates declined. Monsanto (now Bayer) only had its employees use Roundup herbicide in heavy-duty protective gear, but it never issued similarly stringent warnings to customers.

A close collaborator during the foreclosure crisis described some of the cases from the class action days and even individual tort attorneys on mesothelioma cases. The final state of cancer is dire. Patients often have broken ribs as the cancer fills the chest cavity and greatly reduces the ability to breathe. In one case, from what I gather, the defense attorneys prosecuted him from his deathbed in the hospital for days on end, 10 hours a day. They weren’t just trying to make him inconsistent. They tried to kill him faster through stress and sleep deprivation, so he couldn’t testify in court.

He lived long enough to do so. The sight of him being wheeled away, wearing oxygen tubes and wearing clothes to show his bloated torso, was so horrifying to the jury that it was not difficult to prove that he had suffered serious harm, only to determine what liability the defendant was responsible for. All I had to do was do it.

My rep had to stop handling these cases. Even if I received a big award, I was psychologically exhausted.

And Subiva has become adept at finding ways to avoid meaningful punishment. For example, Alabama was once a good place for this type of thing (sorry I can’t tell you why). However, the state Supreme Court is elected. These races soon attracted more attention in campaign donations than any other judicial contest in the country. At one point, the Supreme Court race received $13 million in donations, far more than the gubernatorial race.

As a result, big damage awards in Alabama were reduced to $1 million, like a big corporate couch lint.

Now back to Thompson. Since I don’t have much to add, I’ll just let the tweets do the talking.

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1 I vaguely remember several episodes of various crime shows my mother loved while trying to do the cold task of tracking down a suspect 48-72 hours later. Better informed views are welcome. Perhaps as surveillance technology becomes more widespread, the possibilities expand further. Gothamist seems a little surprised that the killer hasn’t been caught yet.I’ll explain some additional information and suggest how he could be tracked and caught.

2 As those of you who read murder mysteries will already know, a friend of mine who started an American business in Moscow in 1993 told me that he was the only person in that era to sue a Russian oil company, win in court, and get paid. To tell the story, we went live and had her former KGB driver explain how the professional hit works. They take three people A, B and C. A commits murder. B hired A. The customer hired C, and C found B.

B kills A and is in turn killed by C, making it very difficult to connect the client to the murder.

A is cheap. B doesn’t.

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