The To­ba­go Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (TRHA) paid $1,835,806.06 to set­tle four law­suits brought against it be­tween Jan­u­ary 2013 and Ju­ly 31 this year.

This was re­vealed by Sec­re­tary of Health, Well­ness and Fam­i­ly De­vel­op­ment Dr Agatha Car­ring­ton at last week’s 18th Ple­nary Sit­ting at the As­sem­bly Cham­ber in Scar­bor­ough.

Re­spond­ing to a ques­tion for oral an­swer which was brought by Mi­nor­i­ty Coun­cil­lor Dr Faith B. Yis­rael, Car­ring­ton said the TRHA set­tled four of the 19 law­suits brought against it.

She said the au­thor­i­ty faced le­gal ac­tion for med­ical neg­li­gence and em­ploy­ee-re­lat­ed mat­ters.

Not­ing that there were no out­stand­ing law­suits to be paid, she list­ed the pay­ment dates and amounts for the four claims.

“The num­ber set­tled in and out of court was four. For those four set­tle­ments, the dates the set­tle­ments were reached are: Sep­tem­ber 2015, the to­tal sum of the set­tle­ment was $271,500; June 2016, a to­tal sum of the set­tle­ment was $750,000; Sep­tem­ber 2017, the amount paid $30,000 and June 2018, the to­tal sum of the set­tle­ment was 784,306.06,” Car­ring­ton said.