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p0669 An employment agreement between a medical group and a physician that required arbitration of any claim arising under the employment relationship applied to an action for defamation based on the claim that after terminating the employee, the employer sent letters to plaintiff's patients falsely informing them that plaintiff had left the group because of marital problems, mental problems, and loss of his insurance coverage, that he was no longer practicing medicine, and that he had disappeared.CitationBUCKHORN v ST JUDE HERITAGE MEDICAL (Employment Defamation) 121 CA4 1401 [See: Vianna v Doctors' Management 27 CA4 1186, T/AT 9/94]
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