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Harvard Medical School Agrees to Pay $53 Million to Families After Donated Human Remains Were Sold on Black Market

Harvard Medical School has agreed to pay $53 million to settle class action lawsuits filed by relatives of body donors whose remains were illegally sold on the black market. According to the Associated Press, the lawsuits were brought by 47 family members of donors who had entrusted their loved ones’ bodies to Harvard’s Anatomical Gift Program for medical research and education. The settlement comes after former Harvard Medical School morgue manager Cedric Hodge was convicted in connection with a scheme involving the theft and sale of donated human remains.

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