Chicarella v. Passant

How courts have described this case

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• holding that intrusion must be substantial and highly offensive to ordinary person
• finding that an investigator’s report to an insurance company constituted a conditionally privileged publication
• finding “the information disclosed by the hospital records is not of the sort which would ‘cause mental suffering, shame or humiliation to a person of ordinary sensibili ties.’ ”
• investigator’s report regarding plaintiffs character communicated allegedly defamatory matter to insurance company which hired investigator to prepare report and, thus, publication requirement of defamation action was satisfied
• “Publication of defamatory matter is the intentional or negligent communication of such matter to one other than the person defamed.”
• intrusion must be substantial and highly offensive to ordinary person

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).