Harvard to Pay $53 Million to Settle Lawsuits over Theft of Body Parts
The deal includes a live webinar, a scholarship fund and notice to families after courts revived claims that Harvard ignored years of morgue thefts.
- On Tuesday, a Boston court preliminarily approved a $53 million class action settlement resolving lawsuits against Harvard University for mishandling donated bodies and body parts.
- Families accused Harvard of negligence after the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court revived lawsuits last fall, citing the institution's 'extraordinary failure' in supervising former morgue manager Cedric Lodge.
- Cedric Lodge exploited his position at the 'Anatomical Gifts Program' to steal and sell cadaver parts between 2018 and 2021; he was sentenced to eight years in prison in December, while his wife Denise Lodge received one year and a day.
- Harvard Medical School deans George Daley and Bernard Chang called Lodge's conduct 'despicable, abhorrant, and a flagrant betrayal of our values as a medical community' in a Monday letter pledging a live webinar for families.
- Attorney Shannon Pennock of Morgan & Morgan said the settlement ensures 'anatomical gift programs will no longer be assured blanket immunity,' with final approval scheduled for December and Harvard establishing an annual scholarship for medical students.
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