U.S.C. Agrees to Pay $1.1 Billion to Patients of Gynecologist Accused of Abuse

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Source: New York Times

SACRAMENTO — The University of Southern California on Thursday announced that it will pay more than $1.1 billion to the former patients of a campus gynecologist accused of preying sexually on hundreds of patients, marking what university officials called “the end of a painful and ugly chapter in the history of our university.”

The staggering sum — a combination of three sets of settlements with more than 700 victims of Dr. George Tyndall — sets a record for collegiate sex abuse payouts, compensating a generation of young U.S.C. women. Lawsuits arising from Larry Nasser’s sexual abuse of gymnasts at Michigan State University were settled for $500 million, for example. And Penn State paid $109 million in claims related to sexual abuse by Jerry Sandusky.

The U.S.C. claims — which arose from only one of several scandals to engulf the university in recent years — reflected a 2018 federal class action settled earlier for $215 million, a second group of several dozen cases in which the amount of the settlement was not made public and a third settlement, which the university said was reached with the aid of a private mediator and a Los Angeles Superior Court judge. In a letter to students and alumni, the president of the university Carol L. Folt said, “These events have been devastating for our entire community.”

Ms. Folt also said the university would fund the settlement over two years through a combination of “litigation reserves, insurance proceeds, deferred capital spending, sale of nonessential assets, and careful management of nonessential expenses.” She added that no philanthropic gifts, endowment funds or tuition would be redirected to pay the costs. Revelations that Dr. Tyndall had abused students for years were first made public in 2018 in an exhaustive report published by the Los Angeles Times, for which the newspaper won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/25/us/usc-settlement-george-tyndall.html

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1. The Associated Press has a different number.

There must some fees the AP isn't including.

BREAKING: The University of Southern California agrees to pay $852 million to settle a lawsuit with more than 700 women who accused the college’s longtime campus gynecologist of sexual abuse.

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2. I think because the NYT is including what was settled for earlier (from their article) -

The U.S.C. claims — which arose from only one of several scandals to engulf the university in recent years — reflected a 2018 federal class action settled earlier for $215 million, a second group of several dozen cases in which the amount of the settlement was not made public and a third settlement, which the university said was reached with the aid of a private mediator and a Los Angeles Superior Court judge.

The total of the $215 million plus the announced $852 million would give you $1.067 billion (that they are apparently rounding up to $1.1 billion).

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3. Not unlike other universities

people knew things and stayed silent or participated in a coverup. Sickening.

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4. Again?

700 women?

Speechless