The University of Southern California (USC) has agreed to an $852m settlement with more than 700 women who have accused the college’s longtime campus gynecologist of sexual abuse. When combined with an earlier settlement of a separate class-action suit, the school has agreed to pay out more than $1bn for claims against Dr George Tyndall. Tyndall, 74, faces 35 criminal counts of alleged sexual misconduct between 2009 and 2016 at the university’s student health center. “I am deeply sorry for the pain experienced by these valued members of the USC community,” the USC president, Carol L Folt, said in a statement. Separately, USC earlier agreed to pay $215m to settle a class-action lawsuit that applies to about 18,000 women who were patients of Tyndall’s.

Source: The Guardian March 26, 2021 14:30 UTC