Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s demonization of food and pharma has put the Trump administration on the wrong side of its traditional allies in industry – but opened a path to a new alliance with a longtime GOP nemesis: lawyers representing consumers who say they were harmed by companies.
Kennedy’s moves, from his disparagement of Tylenol and ultraprocessed food to his broadsides against vaccines, have lawyers who assemble aggrieved plaintiffs to sue deep-pocketed companies envisioning the sort of cases that turn attorneys into Hollywood heroes and billionaires. They’re citing Kennedy and his Make America Healthy Again movement to buttress their personal injury tort suits.
Lawyers behind major settlements against companies [said] that Kennedy’s sweeping anti-corporate agenda targeting food, chemical and pharmaceutical companies, along with rising public skepticism of industry, is creating a tailwind for the tort system to take on corporate power.
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Kennedy is a former trial lawyer himself, winning cases against Monsanto in 2018 for the health harms allegedly caused by its herbicide Roundup, and against DuPont ….
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Many longtime GOP allies in industry and proponents of tort reform decry the MAHA agenda, arguing it is enriching the trial bar and will raise prices for consumers.
