CONNECTICUT
The Hartford Courant
By EDMUND H. MAHONY, emahony@courant.com
The Hartford Courant
6:44 p.m. EST, January 4, 2012
St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center and one of its insurers have settled with another eight of the 150 victims who sued after they were sexually abused as children by the hospital’s former chief endocrinologist, Dr. George Reardon.
The most recent settlements, all of which involve insurance coverage provided solely by The Travelers Cos., leave about 39 suits pending. Resolution of the remaining cases has been complicated by a dispute among hospital insurers over what kind of coverage is triggered by the abuse and how the cost of damages should be divided.
Reardon worked at the hospital from 1963 until 1993, when complaints about his behavior reached state medical regulators. He used a so-called study of child growth rates as a pretext to abuse and collect obscene photographs of 500 or more children over the 30 years.
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