U.S. Figure Skating has reached a $1.45 million settlement with a former skater who had accused the organization of failing to protect him from sexual abuse by Richard Callaghan, a once-prominent coach of Olympians.
The former skater, Adam Schmidt, had filed a lawsuit in San Diego in 2019 that said that Mr. Callaghan had repeatedly abused him from 1999 to 2001, beginning when Mr. Schmidt was 14 years old.
Mr. Schmidt became the fourth male skater to have publicly accused Mr. Callaghan of improper behavior from the early 1990s to the early 2000s.
The lawsuit accused U.