Kent C. Sullivan

Of Counsel at The Lanier Law Firm
Houston, TX

About Kent C. Sullivan

Kent has served as a justice on the Texas Court of Appeals, a judge for the 80th District Court in Harris County, Texas, and as First Assistant Attorney General, the second-highest-ranking official of the Texas Office of the Attorney General. In 2017, he was appointed by Governor Greg Abbott to serve as the Texas Commissioner of Insurance, the state’s top insurance regulatory position, responsible for the policies, operations, and enforcement activities of the Texas Department of Insurance. In this role, Kent helped protect consumers in the second-largest insurance market in the nation and the eighth largest in the world. Also, he was appointed by the United States Department of the Treasury to its Federal Advisory Committee on Insurance.

As the nation’s conversation around health care insurance intensifies, Kent is actively working with corporate clients to regain control of health insurance offerings, to seek transparency in cost and coverage decisions, and pursue litigation if needed. With experience overseeing the second-largest insurance market in the U.S., Kent can explain how the rise of Third-Party Administrators and Pharmacy Benefit Managers has caused employers and employees to lose control of their health insurance and how he is working with clients to demand change. Community and Professional Activities Kent currently serves on the Texas Supreme Court Advisory Commi

Proven verdicts and settlements at The Lanier Law Firm

These results are credited to The Lanier Law Firm. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

A St. Louis jury in July 2018 awarded 22 women and their families $4.69 billion, the largest U.S. verdict of that year, finding that asbestos in Johnson & Johnson's talcum powder products caused ovarian cancer; a Missouri appellate court upheld $2.11 billion in 2020.

Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, Missouri · 2018Product LiabilityRead the full story →

After a six-week federal trial, a jury found three of the nation's largest retail pharmacy chains created a public nuisance by flooding Lake and Trumbull Counties, Ohio with opioid pills, and a judge ordered $650 million to fund a 15-year abatement plan.

U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio, Cleveland (MDL 2804) · 2021Product LiabilityRead the full story →

A Dallas federal jury awarded $1.04 billion to six California patients harmed by Johnson and Johnson's metal-on-metal Pinnacle hip implants, with W. Mark Lanier leading an eight-week trial that produced one of the largest product-liability verdicts of 2016.

U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas, Dallas (MDL 2244) · 2016Product LiabilityRead the full story →

Hours before opening arguments in the first federal opioid bellwether trial, Cuyahoga and Summit counties in Ohio secured a $260 million settlement from distributors AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health, and McKesson, plus manufacturer Teva.

U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio, Cleveland (MDL 2804) · 2019Product LiabilityRead the full story →

A Dallas federal jury awarded six New York patients $247 million against Johnson and Johnson and its DePuy unit, finding that the metal-on-metal Pinnacle hip implant system was defectively designed and that the company concealed known risks from patients and surgeons.

U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas, Dallas (MDL 2244) · 2017Product LiabilityRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Education

University of Virginia Law School
J.D.
University of Virginia
Undergraduate

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