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    Patients who accused UCLA doctor of sexual abuse to share $243.6 million settlement

    by Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times Feb 08, 2022 4 minutes

    LOS ANGELES — The University of California system has agreed to pay $243.6 million to settle a lawsuit by more than 200 women, some of them cancer patients, who alleged they were sexually abused by a former UCLA gynecologist.

    The agreement, announced Tuesday, covers 203 former patients who have sued over the conduct of Dr. James Heaps. It comes on top of a $73-million class-action settlement involving more than 5,000 patients from 1983 to 2018.

    The settlement does not cover more than 300 patients who are continuing to sue. Heaps is also facing criminal charges involving seven of those patients.

    The settlement amounts to $1.2 million for each plaintiff, similar to one USC struck last year that paid $852 million to more

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