Hakki v. Galencare, Inc.

CRENSHAW, Judge.

*441Dr. Hadi Hakki appeals the trial court's order dismissing with prejudice his second amended complaint for defamation and defamation by implication against Northside Hospital. Because the trial court erred in concluding that Dr. Hakki failed to sufficiently plead intentional fraud on the part of the hospital, we reverse.

In his second amended complaint, Dr. Hakki alleged that after he was named chief of surgery at the hospital in 2007, he discovered that the hospital was filing false reports regarding cardiac surgery mortality, morbidity, complications, and other data to the…