UnitedHealth Group has named long-time executive Tim Noel as the new chief executive for its massive UnitedHealthcare health insurance business. The announcement Thursday came a little more than seven weeks after the Dec.

The brazen killing of Thompson on Dec. 4 ignited a broad conversation about the frustrations of navigating the US healthcare system.

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 will promote one of its top insurance executives to replace Brian Thompson, the slain CEO of its UnitedHealthcare arm.

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. Noel will take charge at UnitedHealthcare,

United Healthcare has announced that it plans to replace slain CEO Brian Thompson with Tim Noel, who was previously the head of its Medicare business, as the CEO of the health insurance business just one month after Thompson was slain in New York.