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University of Southern California to pay out $1 billion in gynaecologist sex abuse case
The University of Southern California has agreed to pay a record $US852 million ($1.1 billion) to women who say they were sexually abused by a former campus gynaecologist.
Key points:
- The deal resolves lawsuits brought by 710 women in California state court
- George Tyndall lost his medical licence and has been charged with sexually assaulting 21 patients
- University officials admit they failed to act on a number of complaints, but deny a deliberate cover-up
More than 700 women accused George Tyndall of sexually abusing them as patients, and the prestigious school of trying to cover it up.
The law firm representing many of the women in the California state court case said the payout agreed to by USC and the plaintiffs marked the largest…
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