Commission Finds Few Denials by Fraudulent Doc; The Hartford Offering Remediation on Claims

A month after Connecticut authorities discovered that disgraced New York doctor Spyros Panos had set up a fraudulent utilization review firm in Connecticut, regulators and insurers there are breathing a cautious sigh of relief. "We went through every open file, and only found a handful that were significant denials, and those have been addressed," said Stephen Morelli, chairman of the Connecticut Workers' Compensation Commission. Most of the 220 claims that Panos' company, Excel O, reviewed in Connecticut were done for The Hartford, and the carrier has launched a remed...