A $250 Million Settlement Has Been Reached With A US Institution Over A Doctor's Sex Assault

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A $250 Million Settlement Has Been Reached With A US Institution Over A Doctor's Sex Assault

The University of California has agreed to pay over $250 million (£185 million) to over 200 women who claim a college gynaecologist sexually assaulted them.

Several women have accused the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) of concealing James Heaps' alleged sexual assault of patients.

Between 1983 and 2018, Mr. Heaps worked at the UCLA Student Health Center for 35 years.

Hundreds of women claim he mistreated them, some of whom had cancer.

Mr Heaps' accusations were not investigated by the institution until 2017. In hundreds of lawsuits, it has been accused of covering up a gynecologist's alleged sexual abuse of victims.

In 2019, a judge ordered his medical license to be suspended for the length of the sex abuse case.

The institution expressed the hope that the cash settlement would bring "healing and closure" to the women involved.

Mr Heaps has pleaded not guilty to 21 felony counts of sexual abuse against seven women.

According to a UCLA statement released on Tuesday, "the alleged conduct by Heaps is repugnant and opposed to the University's principles." "Our first and most important responsibility will always be to the communities we serve, and we hope that this settlement will be one of them."

"Today, after eight long years, I received recognition of what occurred to me," Kara Cagle, a breast cancer survivor who reported Mr Heaps while having treatment at the institution, told the Los Angeles Times.

"While that provides some solace, my heart hurts for all the women who were not spared, for all the women who suffered after me because UCLA refused to act."

The settlement reached on Tuesday did not put an end to a lawsuit filed by more than 300 patients.

A federal judge approved a $73 million settlement against Mr Heaps in July, after more than 5,500 women filed a lawsuit against him.

He was previously the top paid doctor in the whole University of California system, according to lawyers in the lawsuit.

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