Jane Hutton - a medical statistician and statistics professor at the University of Warwick - first became a director of the USS in 2015.
It has been reported widely that Hutton was suspended from the board four years later after breaching a number of her director duties and ultimately disclosed information about the scheme to external sources.
Yesterday (19 May) however, USS confirmed in a statement that Hutton had withdrawn her employment tribunal claim in what was a unilateral decision of Hutton.
"This entire course of events has been deeply regrettable," a USS spokesperson said. "Professor Hutton's unilateral decision to withdraw her claim is a sensible one."
USS confirmed its trustee board has decided not to pursue Professor Hutton for its costs.
Hutton's case comes against the current context of the embattled USS scheme's wider problems since it reported a technical provisions deficit of between 14.9bn and 17.9bn in its 2020 valuation.
Increasingly bitter disputes between the scheme's sponsoring employer and the University and College Union on the best way to plug the deficit and revise contribution levels have led to severe disruption at higher education institutions across the UK including months of strike action.
A wave of pro-whistleblower opinions from federal judges suggests the False Claims Act remains on solid ground despite pointed questions from leading conservative judicial voices. Whistleblowers, ...