Harvard Medical School has agreed to establish two settlement funds totaling $53 million, pending court approval, to resolve class action lawsuits brought by 47 relatives of people whose donated remains may have been stolen and sold by former morgue manager Cedric Lodge. The settlement covers relatives or designees of people who donated their remains between Jan. 1, 2018, and March 31, 2023. Harvard says it cannot determine precisely which donors were affected. Lodge was sentenced last year to eight years in prison after stealing and selling brains, skin, hands and faces to buyers in Pennsylvania and elsewhere; his wife, Denise Lodge, received a sentence of just over a year, and six buyers also pleaded guilty and were sentenced. Harvard will provide families with a statement condemning Lodge's conduct and summarizing changes to its Anatomical Gift Program (system for donated-body research and education), and plans to create an annual financial-aid scholarship for medical students beginning in the 2027-28 academic year.