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BROOKS v. US XPRESS, INC.

Index No. 160083/17, Appeal No. 2071, Case No. 2023-06008.

2024 NY Slip Op 02009

DANIELLE BROOKS, Appellant, v. US XPRESS, INC., ET AL., Respondents, JOHN AND JANE DOES 1-10 ET AL., Defendants.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department.

Decided April 16, 2024.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Meth Law Offices, PC, Chester ( Michael D. Meth of counsel), for appellant.

Fisher & Phillips LLP, New York ( Seth D. Kaufman and Justin W. Reiter of counsel), for respondents.

Before: Kern, J.P., Singh, Scarpulla, Mendez, Higgitt, JJ.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Alexander M. Tisch, J.), entered on September 14, 2023, which granted defendant US Xpress, Inc.'s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Defendant's statements about plaintiff being involved in three preventable accidents while employed by its trucking company were protected by a qualified privilege (see Edsell v Indep. Freightway, Inc., 1995 WL 375827, at *4-6, 1995...

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