Moody v. AIG Insurance Companies

How courts have described this case

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• noting that union officers are generally considered public figures for purposes of union business
• stating that “[s]tatements accusing a plaintiff of theft are libelous or slanderous per se” and that “[t]he words used, however, must be accorded their common and ordinary meaning, without enlargement by innuendo”
• upholding general damages award of $25,000 in libel per se case
• “[t]he privilege of fair comment is a common law qualified privilege arising out of an occasion to express an opinion or otherwise comment on matters of public interest”
• “[t]he privilege of fair comment is a common law qualified privilege arising out of an occasion to express an opinion or otherwise comment on matters of public interest”
• when plaintiff establishes “that the words are false and actionable per se ... [he] is entitled under Connecticut law to recover general damages without proof of special damages,” which are “actual pecuniary loss suffered”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).