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HANCOCK v. VARIYAM

No. 11-0772.

400 S.W.3d 59 (2013)

Joseph E. HANCOCK, Petitioner, v. Easwaran P. VARIYAM, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Decided May 17, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin H. Davidson II , Donald M. Hunt , Lawrence Matthew Doss , Lubbock, TX, for Petitioner, Joseph E. Hancock.

Allyson Newton Ho , Houston, Robert W. St. Clair , Lubbock, TX, for Respondent, Easwaran P. Variyam.

JUSTICE GUZMAN delivered the opinion of the Court.

In this defamation suit involving two physicians, we clarify a longstanding distinction between defamation and defamation per se in the context of statements that relate to one's profession. While a defamatory statement is one that tends to injure a person's reputation, such a statement is defamatory per se if it injures a person in her office, profession, or occupation.1

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