Complaints of patients ignored decades.
The university reached an agreement on the settlement agreement in the amount of $ 852 million with 710 former patients of Dr. George Tyndalla, who worked in a university town of almost three decades. About this writes The New York Times.
In combination with the agreement on a collective claim in the amount of $ 215 million, achieved in 2018, and other calculations, the total amount paid to the plaintiffs will exceed $ 1.1 billion. This is the largest compensation in connection with sexual violence in higher education institutions, the publication notes.
Lawyer John Manley, who represented the interests of the plaintiffs on the last collective claim, said that the university agreed to pay such an amount, including because he ignored the complaints of the gynecologist for almost 30 years. The lawyer said that the victims will receive from 250 thousand to several million dollars.
The President of the University of Carol Fall reported that compensation will be paid for two years. They will be financed by the judicial reserves, insurance revenues, sales of irrelevant assets and careful expense management. Fall noted that the money received as donations or pay for study will not spend on compensation.
Complaints of the doctor came for many years. The patients told about his inappropriate comments and compliments, the fact that he conducted unacceptable manipulations with their genitals. For example, she moved his fingers into the vagina, while often not putting on gloves. Some women reported that during the receptions he showed them photos of the genitals of other patients.
Tindall began working at the University of Southern California's Medical Center in the late 1980s and was the main, and often the only gynecologist of the institution. In 2016, after a complaint of one of the nurses of the center, the doctor was removed from work. A year later, he was allowed to quit his own accord and even paid monetary compensation.
History of harassment was widely publicized in 2018, after the investigation of Los Angeles Times, for which the publication later received the Pulitzer Prize. Because of the scandal from his post, the university president went.
In 2019, Tyndalla was arrested and accused of 29 cases of harassment in relation to 16 women. He denies wine. The former doctor went on bail, the trial has not yet begun.
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