US university to pay more than US$1 billion in gynaecologist sex abuse settlement

Hundreds of former patients sued the University of Southern California for failing to adequately respond to allegations against campus gynecologist George Tyndall AFP/Frederic J. BROWNLOS ANGELES: A top California university has agreed to pay more than US$1 billion to hundreds of women who accused a former campus gynaecologist of sexual abuse, lawyers representing plaintiffs said on Thursday .

Accusations against Tyndall, ranging from inappropriate touching to rape, date as far back as 1990. The youngest accuser was aged 17. Tyndall was not investigated by USC officials until 2016, and was allowed to retire under an amicable agreement with the university, reportedly involving a US$200,000 pay-off.

"The sheer size of this settlement is testimony to the enormous harm that the depraved action of George Tyndall caused our clients," said law firm Manly, Stewart & Finaldi, which represents 234 plaintiffs, in a statement. The university's then-president resigned in 2018 amid pressure from two hundred professors to step down over the scandal.

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