Legal Opinion
Trachtman v. Empire Blue Cross & Blue Shield
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided June 1, 1998PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—In an action to recover damages for defamation, tortious interference with contract, and intentional infliction of emotional distress, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Dowd, J.), dated July 22, 1997, which granted the defendants’ motion to dismiss the complaint, inter alia, for failure to state a cause of action.
Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
In February 1996, as part of a random routine anti-fraud review, the defendant Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield (hereafter Empire) sent a letter to the plaintiff, an optometrist, requesting copies…
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