Ohio State University reaches $100 million settlement in sex abuse lawsuits

All but one of the 280 former students who sued the school through five lawsuits for failing to protect them from a man accused of being a sexual predator have signed on to the agreement.

Ohio State University has agreed to pay $100 million in damages to 279 former students who said a campus doctor sexually assaulted them decades ago.

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Just one of the former students who were part of five active federal lawsuits against Ohio State did not sign on to the agreement, the university and the lawyers for the accusers said in a statement.

Details of the settlement were being finalized, the joint statement said. It did not divulge the name of the holdout.