Knepper v. Brown

Plaintiff, M.M. Knepper, appeals from the trial court’s entry of an ORCP 67 B judgment after the court granted defendant US West Dex’s motion for summary judgment against plaintiffs claims of fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud. The gravamen of those claims is that defendant culpably published a Yellow Pages advertisement that misrepresented a physician’s qualifications to perform liposuction procedures; 2 that plaintiff relied on that misrepresentation in retaining that physician; and that plaintiff was injured when the physician negligently performed liposuction on her. As described below,…