A New York arbitrator has released a long-awaited arbitration award totaling $140 million to resolve 255 medical malpractice lawsuits against ex-doctor Spyros Panos, who has already served one prison term and currently faces new criminal charges.
The attorneys whose firm is handling 150 of the cases against the former Poughkeepsie orthopedist said the mass of lawsuits comprise the largest medical malpractice litigation in New York.
|'People died, lives were ruined.'
“The long and short of it is that he engaged in a 10-year pattern of fraud and abuse, faking surgeries for people who didn't need them or faking them for people who really needed surgery,” said John “J.T.” Wisell of Wisell & McGee.
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Greg Land
Greg Land covers topics including verdicts and settlements and insurance-related litigation for the Daily Report in Atlanta.
