Worley v. Oregon Physicians Service

*243NEWMAN, J.

Defendants appeal from a judgment that awarded plaintiff damages for slander. Her action was based on statements that defendant Sanders, a vice-president of defendant Oregon Physicians Service (OPS), made to other OPS employes after OPS had discharged plaintiff. Defendants contend that the court erred in failing to grant their motions for a directed verdict and for judgment notwithstanding the verdict and in failing properly to instruct the jury on privilege. Wé affirm.

Plaintiff was a claims analyst at OPS for approximately five years before her discharge in October, 1979. OPS…