UCLA settles gynecologist sex abuse suit for $243.6 million

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The University of California has agreed to pay $243.6 million to settle allegations that hundreds of women were sexually abused by a former UCLA gynecologist, lawyers and the university announced Tuesday.

The settlement covers about 50 cases involving 203 women who said they were groped or otherwise abused by Dr. James Heaps over a 35-year career. Each will receive $1.2 million, attorneys said.

The deal was reached with the assistance of a private mediator after substantial litigation, the parties said.

The lawsuits said that UCLA ignored decades of complaints and deliberately concealed abuse.

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By ROBERT JABLON
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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/sports-health-education-lawsuits-california-6667332dbea7521d01524ce971a6597b

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Source: New York Times

University of California to Pay $243 Million to Settle Sexual Abuse Claims

By Vimal Patel
Feb. 8, 2022
Updated 9:58 p.m. ET

The University of California has agreed to pay $243 million to settle the claims of 203 women who alleged sexual misconduct by a gynecologist at the Los Angeles campus, the latest among several nine-figure payouts that universities have announced in recent years in response to sexual abuse allegations.

The payout in the case of Dr. James Heaps, who was affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles, in various roles from 1983 to 2018, comes on top of a $73 million settlement made public in November 2020 to resolve a class-action suit that involved more than 5,000 people who had been patients of Dr. Heaps since the 1980s.

About 600 women opted out of that class-action suit, and the new agreement, announced on Tuesday, settles the claims of 203 of them.

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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/08/us/james-heaps-ucla-abuse-settlement.html

[Hekate]

1. When are universities (looking at you, USC) going to learn that it costs little to replace a doctor--

… at the Student Health Center, compared to the tens of million$, even hundreds of million$, they will ultimately have to pay out. As it is, UCLA et al. mostly look as though they have a criminally careless disregard for the lives and health of the young women who pass through their halls.

[twodogsbarking]

2. They can afford to protect students but they don't.

Time after time, organizations and universities do their best to cover it up.
When that doesn't work they payoff the victims and pretend everything is great.
Disgusting. Lives ruined but jobs maintained.