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Tenet Healthcare Corp. has settled what it called the most significant of the myriad lawsuits lodged against the investor-owned hospital operator after the discovery of dozens of bodies in New Orleans' Memorial Medical Center in the weeks after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Dallas-based Tenet, which sold Memorial to Ochsner Clinic Foundation in 2006, settled a class-action suit last week that involved hundreds of plaintiffs represented under six "bellwether" plaintiffs, said company spokesman Rick Black.
The settlement requires approval from an Orleans Parish Civil District Court judge, which could take up to 120...