WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Victims of disgraced former USA Gymnastics physician Larry Nassar have reached a $380 million settlement with USA Gymnastics, U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee and their insurers after a five-year authorized battle, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
The settlement was confirmed throughout a listening to in a federal chapter court docket in Indianapolis on Monday, the newspaper mentioned.
Reuters couldn’t instantly independently confirm the settlement determine.
The Journal mentioned the settlement will cowl claims introduced by Olympic gold medalists together with Simone Biles, Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney, all of whom are amongst Nassar’s most high-profile victims of sexual abuse.
All three ladies testified concerning the abuse they suffered throughout a Senate listening to this 12 months. At the listening to, they blasted U.S gymnastics and Olympic officers for failing to cease Nassar, they usually took the FBI to job over its botched investigation into Nassar’s actions.
(Reporting by Doina Chiacu and Sarah N. Lynch; Editing by Mark Porter and Howard Goller)
