Legislators Quizzed Robert F. Kennedy younger on Wednesday during a Senate funding of his decision to maintain the financial share of differences against a major vaccine manufacturer.
The ethical records released before the hearing said Mr Kennedy was planning to take end in cases with the Wisner Baum Bar Intelligence.
Mr Kennedy has referred his clients to the business in cases where they are claiming injuries from the Gardasil vaccine, a Merck product intended to prevent cervical cancer that can be caused by the human pylome or HPV.
Mr Kennedy took the unusual step to maintain his stake in the pending litigation, according to ethics documents he filed before his confirmation hearing. Mr Kennedy told ethics deposits that he would end his referral agreement with the law firm, but would receive fees related to cases in the ongoing cases.
The financial regulation has been strongly criticized by Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts. He noted Mr Kennedy’s story to suggest that drug companies and federal officials are motivated by the economic benefit.
He accused Mr Kennedy of speculating the vaccine skepticism. He showed the financial share of the difference against Merck Merck – and his intention to keep even if he acquired regulatory power in the company as a Health Secretary.
“Children may die,” Ms. Warren said. “But Robert Kennedy may continue to collect.”
Public records show that Mr Kennedy has earned about $ 2.5 million from his work with Wisner Baum from 2022. He also earned pay in cases related to California fires.
“All these cases of alleged corporate injustices that have damaged life to victims,” Wisner Baum chief executive R. Brent Wisner said in a statement.
Wisner Baum is currently representing a plaintiff at a Bellweether trial against Merck that started this month in California and other lawsuits are pending in North Carolina.
California’s trial included a plaintiff claiming to develop orthostatic orthostatic tachycardia or pots after taking the plan. A Merck spokesman said the claims have no value.
Mr Kennedy will receive a potentially significant amount if Merck regulates cases or if there is a verdict against the pharmaceutical company in one of the many tests of the expected jury.
Ethics experts said the business regulation would be problematic if Mr Kennedy is confirmed to be the Minister of Health of the Nation. It will oversee the Food and Drug Administration and other organizations that issue basic decisions for drug companies, including Merck. Some include drug approvals, security actions and funding for Medicare and Medicaid.
The arrangement, first mentioned by the Times, has achieved widespread attention. Caroline Kennedy, who released an aggressive letter on Tuesday describing her cousin concerns, said the deal has shown that “she is willing to enrich himself by refusing access to a vaccine that can prevent almost all forms Cervical cancer millions of boys and girls. ”
He also promised to terminate a referral agreement with Morgan & Morgan, the large personal injury company that is now exercising in large food companies, claiming that they are hurting people with their addictive over-processed foods.
