Settlement Of $56 Million Reached In Mass. Soldiers’ Home COVID Death Suit

Mealey's (May 18, 2022, 8:55 AM EDT) -- BOSTON — After Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker and Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito on May 12 announced that a $56 million settlement has been reached in a class action filed by the estates of veterans who died at the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke, Mass., from COVID-19 and on behalf of other residents who died from or contracted COVID-19 there, alleging that the home’s leadership failed to protect the veterans from harm, a federal judge the next day granted the parties’ joint motion to stay pending resolution of a proposed settlement agreement....