Harvard agrees to US$53m settlement over body parts stolen and sold
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BOSTON (AP): Harvard Medical School says it agreed to pay US$53 million to settle class action lawsuits by relatives of body donors whose remains were sold on the black market by its former morgue manager. Harvard Medical School Deans George Q. Daley and Bernard S. Chang announced the development in a letter to the community last Tuesday, calling the actions of former morgue manager Cedric Lodge “despicable, abhorrent, and a flagrant betrayal of our values as a medical community”.