Why the Trump administration excites some personal-injury lawyers
The strange case of vaccine-injury courts
Robert F. Kennedy junior once worked as a personal-injury lawyer. That Donald Trump made him America’s health secretary was odd considering the president despises such lawyers and derisively calls them the “lawyer lobby”. More consequential for public health is the fact that Mr Kennedy now intends to make some of his old cohort very happy.
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This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “ A sharp prick”
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