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(19,601 posts)"Robert F. Kennedy Jr.s selection to run the Health and Human Services Department is being cheered by plaintiffs attorneys who focus on mass tort cases...In Kennedy, they see one of their own. Hes a former trial attorney who handled large personal injury and environmental cases against corporate defendants."
"Kennedy would take control of a massive bureaucracy that includes the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry...Those agencies scrutiny of products is a potential guide for lawyers who sue companies accused of harming consumers. New regulations could also weaken some of the defenses that drugmakers in particular use to fight off mass tort suits."
"Kennedy was of counsel at injury law firm Morgan & Morgan, and served as co-counsel with Wisner Baum in ongoing (vaccine) litigation (at his confirmation Kennedy said he would not give up his financial interest in future vaccine litigation settlements at Wisner Baum...his son is also an attorney at that firm)....At HHS, he would have the power to influence drug and medical device regulation, scrap a liability shield for pharmaceutical companies, or re-review the science behind products that are already on the market."
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and-practice/rfk-jr-as-health-chief-excites-mass-tort-lawyers-eager-to-sue