Harvard to pay $53M in suit over selling donated corpses on black market

Source: New York Post

Harvard University will pay $53 million to settle a ghoulish class-action suit brought by families claiming an imprisoned former morgue manager at the Ivy League institution mishandled the bodies of their loved ones donated to its medical school and even sold their body parts on the black market. A state court judge in Boston preliminarily approved the eight-figure settlement Tuesday in the suit stemming from the 2023 arrest of disgraced former Harvard Medical School’s morgue manager, Cedric Lodge. The Ivy League school will pay out a $53 million settlement after its former longtime morgue manager, Cedric Lodge, was arrested for stealing and selling donated body parts.