Thornton v. Holdenville General Hospital

How courts have described this case

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• holding that statements made between hospital employees and agents regarding a doctor’s competency “were protected by the intra-corporate privilege recognized in Magnolia.”
• finding no publication of a hospital employee’s negative statements to employees of an outside, unrelated company contractually responsible for physician staffing of the hospital’s emergency room
• finding no publication of a hospital employee’s negative statements to employees of an outside, unrelated company contractually responsible for physician staffing of the hospital’s emergency room
• “The existence of agency is generally a question of fact and the burden of proving its existence rests on the party asserting it.”
• “A conditional privilege attaches to statements, which would ordinarily be defamatory, made in good faith on a subject in which the speaker has an interest or in reference to which he has or honestly believes he has a duty to perform.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).