Rice v. Hodapp

BENTON, Judge.

In an action for defamation and related torts, the circuit court granted summary judgment against Richard B. Rice and for State Farm Insurance Company and three of its supervisors. Rice appeals claiming material issues of disputed fact as to the defamation count, in addition to other points. After opinion by the court of appeals, this Court accepted transfer. Mo. ConstArt. V, § 10. Affirmed.

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In December 1988, Virginia Hodapp, a State Farm supervisor, investigated complaints of sexual harassment in the office where Richard Rice, an at-will employee, worked. Interviews with 32 of…