{
  "id": 11231634,
  "title": "Ohio State Could Owe Millions More to Prior Strauss Sex-Abuse Plaintiffs",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/01/ohio-state-could-owe-millions-more-to-prior-strauss-sex-abuse",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-01T16:17:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Yahoo Sports",
    "slug": "yahoo-sports",
    "url": "https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/ohio-state-could-owe-millions-161700087.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Ohio State University has agreed to settle sex-abuse claims filed against former sports medicine doctor Richard Strauss, with a recent $100 million agreement potentially requiring additional payments to earlier plaintiffs. A special master will now determine how to distribute the latest settlement among 279 parties, averaging approximately $358,000 per claimant. This amount surpasses the $61 million paid to 317 earlier plaintiffs between 2020 and 2026. The 2020 settlement stipulated that any future settlement would not exceed the earlier class's average recovery of $252,551 per claimant. If Ohio State settles the remaining Strauss-related litigation as a global settlement for more than that amount, it must engage a mediator to determine the additional amount owed to the earlier settlement class, potentially preserving its favored-nations status. The average recovery in 2020 would be around $323,000 today, based on inflation data.",
  "summary": "Ohio State University’s recent $100 million settlement agreement with sex-abuse victims of former sports medicine doctor Richard Strauss may require the school to pay millions of dollars more to parties covered by a settlement OSU reached with a prior class of Strauss survivors in 2020. A special master will now have to determine how to …",
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        "outlet": "Sportico",
        "title": "Ohio State Could Owe Millions More to Prior Strauss Sex-Abuse Plaintiffs",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/01/ohio-state-could-owe-millions-more-to-prior-strauss-sex-abuse-11232116",
        "published": "2026-10-01T16:17:00.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}