$18.5 million awarded to local hospital’s patients in sexual abuse settlement

A multi-million-dollar settlement was reached in a civil lawsuit involving seven women who allegedly suffered sexual assault at the hands of a Adventist Health Sonora physical therapist. According to a Sept. 25 news release from Lewis & Llewellyn LLP, the firm representing the plaintiffs, physical therapist Jason Elias, whose license was suspended in 2022, worked at Adventist Health for decades. […]

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