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P1131 An action based on allegations that lawyers representing one of the doctors in a partnership that had a contract with an HMO who wrote a letter to the HMO informing it that the partnership was dissolving and asking it to sign a new contract with their client alone did not arise from the exercise of freedom of speech on a public issue and was not subject to the SLAPP statute, because statements in the letter were not made in a public forum and related only to a private matter.CitationKURWA v HARRINGTON (HMO Letter) 146 CA4 841 [See: CCP 425.16; ComputerXpress v Jackson 93 CA4 993, T/AT 12/01; DuCharme v International 110 CA4 107, P/AT 9/03]
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