{"id":21235,"date":"2025-01-30T21:08:32","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T22:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21235"},"modified":"2025-01-30T22:23:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T22:23:14","slug":"rfk-jr-says-he-wont-keep-financial-stake-in-hpv-vaccine-lawsuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21235","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr. Says He Won\u2019t Keep Financial Stake in HPV Vaccine Lawsuits"},"content":{"rendered":"
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During intense questioning Thursday by members of the Senate health committee about his plan to keep a financial stake<\/a> in major vaccine litigation, Robert F. Kennedy said that he would give away his rights to fees that might flow from it.<\/p>\n

It appears to be a reversal from the details of the government ethics agreement that he filed for his Senate confirmation hearings to become the nation\u2019s health secretary.<\/p>\n

Just last week, the ethics<\/a> agreement he provided to senators stated that he would retain a stake in the continuing litigation, meaning that if confirmed, he could receive payments while overseeing the vast U.S. health bureaucracy that includes regulating drug companies. The financial disclosure specified that Mr. Kennedy would collect fees from Wisner Baum, a personal injury law firm based in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

Mr. Kennedy said that he had sent hundreds of clients to the firm, which is suing the drug maker Merck over claims that young people were injured by the company\u2019s Gardasil vaccine, aimed at preventing cervical cancer caused by the human papillomavirus, or HPV. In the ethics statement, he reported: \u201cI am entitled to 10 percent of fees awarded\u201d in cases that he referred to Wisner Baum.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Lawmakers considering his confirmation on Wednesday and Thursday denounced the financial arrangement, with many Democrats suggesting that it posed an inherent conflict because he would stand to gain financially from decisions he made as health secretary that involved drug companies.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have given away all of my rights to any fees in that lawsuit,\u201d Mr. Kennedy told senators on Thursday. Asked to elaborate, Katie Miller, a spokeswoman for Mr. Kennedy, said that he \u201cisn\u2019t personally retaining the fees.\u201d<\/p>\n

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During intense questioning Thursday by members of the Senate health committee about his plan to keep a financial stake in major vaccine litigation, Robert F. Kennedy said that he would give away his rights to fees that might flow from it.It appears to be a reversal from the details of the government ethics agreement that he filed for his Senate confirmation hearings to become the nation\u2019s health secretary.Just last week, the ethics agreement he provided to senators stated that he would retain a stake in the continuing litigation, meaning that if confirmed, he could receive payments while overseeing the vast U.S. health bureaucracy that includes regulating drug companies. The financial disclosure specified that Mr. Kennedy would collect fees from Wisner Baum, a personal injury law firm based in Los Angeles.Mr. Kennedy said that he had sent hundreds of clients to the firm, which is suing the drug maker Merck over claims that young people were injured by the company\u2019s Gardasil vaccine, aimed at preventing cervical cancer caused by the human papillomavirus, or HPV. In the ethics statement, he reported: \u201cI am entitled to 10 percent of fees awarded\u201d in cases that he referred to Wisner Baum.Lawmakers considering his confirmation on Wednesday and Thursday denounced the financial arrangement, with many Democrats suggesting that it posed an inherent conflict because he would stand to gain financially from decisions he made as health secretary that involved drug companies.\u201cI have given away all of my rights to any fees in that lawsuit,\u201d Mr. Kennedy told senators on Thursday. Asked to elaborate, Katie Miller, a spokeswoman for Mr. Kennedy, said that he \u201cisn\u2019t personally retaining the fees.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21237,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21238,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21235\/revisions\/21238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}