UC Board Settles Suit Over Cadaver Program
The University of California Board of Regents has agreed to pay $500,000 to a family given ashes that didn’t belong to a relative whose body had been donated to the UC Irvine School of Medicine cadaver program.
The settlement, reported Monday by the Orange County Register, marked the largest payout yet in a willed-body scandal that has led to dozens of lawsuits.
The settlement with the family of Anneliese P. Yuenger, who died in 1999 at age 82, came six years after the medical school fired the director of its cadaver program for selling body parts.
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