A convicted physician charged with fraud in New York state also set up a fraudulent peer-review firm in Connecticut, which now means that hundreds of workers' compensation cases may have to be reopened, authorities said Wednesday.
"There are characters and then there are people with issues. This guy had some real issues," said Stephen Morelli, chairman of the Connecticut Workers' Compensation Commission.
Disgraced orthopedic surgeon Spyros Panos was arrested in April in Hopewell Junction, New York, for allegedly stealing another physician's identity, then setti...
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