UCLA didn’t acknowledge wrongdoing in reaching that settlement but did agree to change its procedures for preventing, identifying, investigating and dealing with sexual misconduct.
Under the class-action settlement, some 6,600 former patients were to receive between $2,500 and $250,000, with the higher amounts involving the extent of bodily injury and emotional distress as decided by a panel of experts. In that case, more than 100 women said that between 19, Heaps groped women, simulated intercourse with an ultrasound probe or made inappropriate comments during examinations at the UCLA student health center, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center or his on-campus office. UCLA settled a similar lawsuit last year for $73 million. The lawsuit was one of hundreds filed that allege abuse by Heaps. He has pleaded not guilty and denied wrongdoing. Heaps also was criminally charged last year with 21 counts of sexual offenses involving seven women. The University of California, Los Angeles began investigating Heaps in 2017 and he retired the next year after the school declined to renew his contract. The suit said that the university ignored decades of complaints and deliberately concealed abuse.Ī message seeking comment from UCLA Health wasn't immediately returned Monday. The settlement was announced Monday by some of the attorneys representing 203 women who said they were groped or otherwise abused by Dr. LOS ANGELES – The University of California has agreed to pay more than $100 million to settle allegations that several hundred women were sexually abused by a former UCLA gynecologist, lawyers announced.
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