SPRINGFIELD, Mass. A federal judge on Monday signed off on a $58 million settlement for victims of the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak at the Soldiers Home in Holyoke, Mass., the largest of its kind nationwide.The class action lawsuit was filed in July of.
As the deadline nears for surviving family members and veterans who survived the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak at the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke to apply for shares of a $56 million settlement with the state, former U.S. Attorney Donald K. Stern is preparing to be the gatekeeper.
Donald Stern, a former U.S. attorney in Massachusetts, is the court-appointed claims administrator in charge of dispensing the $56 million settlement among residents of the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home who contracted and suffered from COVID-19.
At least 84 veterans died after the outbreak at the state-run Holyoke Soldiers’ Home in March 2020. Massachusetts will pay their families a minimum of $400,000 each under the settlement.