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By City News Service Apr 20, 2021 LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Attorneys representing former UCLA students who allege they were sexually abused by disgraced ex-campus gynecologist/oncologist James Heaps urged other former patients to opt out of a $73 million federal class-action settlement before the May 6 deadline. A federal judge in January gave preliminary approval of the settlement in which the University of California system agreed to pay $73 million to more than 5,500 women who were patients of Heaps, who has been charged with 20 felony counts of sexual assault. The agreement -- which requires ...

Share this article Share this article SEATTLE, Feb. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- A proposed class action Settlement may affect you if you were a woman seen for treatment by Dr. James Heaps ("Dr. Heaps") at University of California Los Angeles ("UCLA") medical facilities during varying periods of time between January 1, 1983 and June 28, 2018.  The lawsuit pending in the United States District Court for the Central District of California is A. B. et al. v. Regents of the University of California et al., Case No. 2:20-cv-09555-RGK-E ("lawsuit"). What is the Lawsuit About ?  The women who brought...

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Dr. James Heaps, a former UCLA obstetrician-gynecologist, appears for a hearing June 26, 2019, in the Airport Branch Courthouse in Los Angeles. He has been accused of sexually battering patients. (Al Seib/Los Angeles Times/TNS) Lawmaker urges UC regents to reject $73M settlement in case of UCLA gynecologist LOS ANGELES — A state lawmaker who wrote the law allowing accusers of a UCLA gynecologist more time to sue is advising University of California regents to reject a proposed $73 million class-action settlement, saying it will curtail many of the alleged victim...

Advertisement State Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland), in a letter to the UC Board of Regents on Dec. 15, said the settlement was “negotiated in secret without notice or input from the more than 200 women who have filed suit against UCLA.” Wicks said the deal was designed to undermine the intent of Assembly Bill 3092: The legislation, which takes effect Jan. 1, will give survivors until the end of 2021 to file lawsuits. Wicks noted that the number of alleged victims could number 6,600. Wicks noted that “survivors gave heart-wrenching testimony as they pleaded for the right to decide...