Early Detection Center, PC v. New York Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the filing of a groundless lawsuit was not of such an extreme nature so as to be characterized as outrageous and atrocious
• holding that the filing of a groundless lawsuit was not of such an extreme nature so as to be characterized as outrageous and atrocious
• “resorting to a court of law for the resolution of its dispute” was not extreme or outrageous
• rejecting the idea that the cost of litigation, embarrassment and emotional distress, damage to reputation, and damage to the goodwill of the plaintiffs’ business amounted to special injury
• filing of a lawsuit is privileged and, even if the suit is groundless, it cannot be considered the sort of outrage or atrocity necessary for a claim of infliction of emotional distress
• noting civil conspiracy “may not exist in the air” and “since plaintiffs . . . failed to state any actionable tort theories in their . . . amended complaint, the[ir] conspiracy [claim] must also fail.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).