QUESTION
Can an email to the persons you hire for home improvements stating your unsatifaction of cust. serve and holding up a contract be considered slander?
Asked on Feb 12th, 2016 on Libel, Slander and Defamation - Florida
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We hired a contractor to do work. A contract was signed with price. They came back at us asking for additional money. We confronted them. We sent emails to the owner and project manager asking why and we were feeling like we have been taken advantage of. The owner now states we caused him defamation/slander. We have NOT published or spoken to a thrid party. Everything has been communicated eith them only. We are dissatisfied customer of the service and now we received a ceast and desist letter for slander asking us to sign. We refused because now they threatening us to uphold the warranty (3yrs) and we feel like we did nothing wrong. They have been paid in full and we did everything we needed to. We have issues with the work done now.
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This is a classic defamation issue where there are allegations on one side and the other side denies such. If the other side has a lawyer sending a cease and desist letter for defamation, presumably there are additional disclosures or threats of such that they feel warranted retaining counsel and taking such action. Simply denying the allegations does little to resolve the dispute so it would be prudent for you to retain counsel as well at this point since the issue has clearly escalated.
Answered on Feb 15th, 2016 at 5:34 AM
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