{"id":147717,"date":"2026-04-01T12:31:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T20:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/01\/abuse-of-qualified-privilege-state-appellate-court-revives-defamation-suit-for-mid-surgery-statement\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T12:31:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T20:31:39","slug":"abuse-of-qualified-privilege-state-appellate-court-revives-defamation-suit-for-mid-surgery-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/01\/abuse-of-qualified-privilege-state-appellate-court-revives-defamation-suit-for-mid-surgery-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Abuse of Qualified Privilege? State Appellate Court Revives Defamation Suit for Mid-Surgery Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Illinois appellate court ruled that summary judgment was improper because questions remain about whether the chief of orthopedic surgery at St. Joseph Hospital in Chicago abused qualified immunity privilege about false accusations against another surgeon.<\/p>\n

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An Illinois appellate court ruled that summary judgment was improper because questions remain about whether the chief of orthopedic surgery at St. Joseph Hospital in Chicago abused qualified immunity privilege about false accusations against another surgeon.<\/p>\n

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An Illinois appellate court ruled that summary judgment was improper because questions remain about whether the chief of orthopedic surgery at St. Joseph Hospital in Chicago abused qualified immunity privilege about false accusations against another surgeon. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 An Illinois appellate court ruled that summary judgment was improper because questions remain about whether the chief of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":147718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/legal-news-y2m8F4.jpg?fit=620%2C372&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}