McCone v. New England Telephone & Telegraph Co.

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• declining to consider appellant’s “cursory and conclusory” argument which lacked support of legal authority
• rejecting the plaintiffs’ argument that “the company can be held liable for breach of the implied covenant even if it did not terminate the employees ... [t]he plaintiffs cite no cases to support this proposition, and we know of none in this State”
• The privilege is lost through unnecessary, unreasonable or excessive publication upon proof that the employer published the defamatory information recklessly
• “Once the existence of the privilege is established, the burden is upon the plaintiff to prove that it has been abused . . . ”
• no breach of good faith where plaintiffs denied salary increases and corresponding pension benefits due to alleged arbitrary performance evaluations
• even assuming supervisor published plaintiffs poor evaluations to someone other than the department head, plaintiff failed to establish recklessness

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).