Legal Opinion
Barakat v. Matz
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided March 31, 1995No. 1-93-2433PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRESIDING JUSTICE GREIMAN
delivered the opinion of the court:
Following the dismissal of his six-count complaint, plaintiff Safwan Barakat, M.D., appeals only the dismissal of two defamation counts against defendant Marshall Matz, M.D.
On appeal, plaintiff argues that (1) certain written statements included in reports prepared by a consulting physician for a worker’s compensation insurance carrier are actionable as defamatory and (2) certain verbal statements of a consulting physician for a worker’s compensation insurance carrier to a worker’s compensation claimant are actionable as defamatory.
We…
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