Moore & Associates v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.

STOREY, Justice.

Plaintiff, Moore & Associates, an association of anesthesiologists, have appealed from a summary judgment granted defendant, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. The suit was for defamation, libel, and tor-tious interference with the doctor-patient relationship. The communications which plaintiff alleged to be actionable were letters sent by defendant, a group medical insurer, to several former patients of plaintiff. The letters advised the patients that their claims for medical services furnished by plaintiff would not be paid in full because plaintiff’s charges were…