Harvard Must Face Lawsuits over Theft of Body Parts by Ex-Morgue Manager, Court Rules

Harvard must face lawsuits over theft of body parts by ex-morgue manager, court rules

Families whose loved ones’ bodies were donated to the morgue at Harvard Medical School, then dismembered and sold by an employee as part of a criminal scheme, can sue the school and the person who oversaw the morgue, the Supreme…

Lawsuits against Harvard in morgue scandal can move forward, SJC rules - The Boston Globe

The court said Harvard should have been on notice that morgue employees could have been selling cadaver parts for profit.

Harvard Must Face Lawsuits Over Theft of Body Parts by Ex-Morgue Manager, Court Rules

Harvard University can be sued by families alleging it mishandled the bodies of loved ones donated to its medical school and whose parts were then sold on the black market by the former manager of its morgue, Massachusetts’ top court ruled on Monday. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court held that a trial court judge wrongly dismissed lawsuits seeking to hold Harvard responsible for ex-morgue manager Cedric Lodge’s “macabre scheme” to dissect…