A federal judge has approved a nearly $58 million settlement in a case involving the deaths of dozens of military veterans who contracted COVID-19 at a Massachusetts veterans home
FILE - The Holyoke Soldiers' Home is seen in this aerial photograph, May 29, 2018, in Holyoke, Mass. A federal judge on Monday, Nov. 14, 2022, approved a nearly $58 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit filed in 2020 in response to the deaths of dozens of veterans who died or got sick after contracting COVID-19 at the Massachusetts veterans' home. SPRINGFIELD, Mass.
Attorneys for the plaintiffs said 84 residents died and roughly the same number were sickened. A total of 164 plaintiffs include veterans who tested positive for the disease and survived as well as the families of those who died. Several of the veterans who survived COVID-19 have died of other causes since the lawsuit was filed, Aleo said.
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