Ackman Backs Doctor as His Fight With UnitedHealth Escalates (1)

Billionaire investor Bill Ackman pledged to cover the legal fees for a Texas doctor in a dispute with UnitedHealth Group Inc. over her claims that the company asked her to scrub out of an operation to justify a patient’s care.

Ackman, who’s chief executive officer of Pershing Square Capital Management, said on X Thursday that he took down an earlier post critical of the insurer after lawyers for UnitedHealth told him that the doctor’s claims that he had amplified on social media were untrue.

In a now-deleted post on X, Ackman promoted a video earlier this week from Texas ...