Even if the complaint in the underlying action can be reasonably interpreted as alleging a claim for defamation, such a claim falls solely and entirely within the policy exclusion of knowingly false statements, the underlying complaint being restricted to charges of malicious and purposeful intent on defendants' part in a conspiratorial effort to drive the injured party out of the family business (see, International Paper Co. v Continental Cas. Co.,
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