First Quality Equipment Rental, Inc. v. Agency for Health Care Administration

How courts have described this case

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• holding that in order to state a claim for defamation, a plaintiff must allege that the defendant published false statements that harmed the plaintiff and that the defendant was not privileged to do so
• recognizing an employee's right to recover future lost wages, where limited to a reasonable time and supported by the evidence, in a wrongful discharge action alleging breach of an implied employment contract
• declining to engage in further analysis upon concluding that evidence supported finding of actual malice
• maintaining material changes in employee handbook created an offer to change employment terms which can only be operative by agreement of the employee
• inferring actual malice when defendant intentionally made statement with improper motives and failed to investigate or retract statement after being notified it was false
• finding of actual malice was implicit in trial court’s decision with respect to defamation

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