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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Kocoras partially grants the defendant insurance company’s motion for summary judgment on defamation, damages and intentional tort claims brought by the plaintiff insurance broker. The company blamed the broker for failing to add one of its trucking company clients’ trucks to a list of insured vehicles, leading to internal financial and legal disputes as to whose fault it was that the truck wasn’t properly insured after it was in an accident. One of the broker’s experts later claimed that the insurance company’s accusation reduced the broker’s sale price to a larger insurance group by $1.1 million. The court finds factual disputes make summary judgment on the broker’s defamation and intentional tort claims inappropriate, but it partially grants the insurance company’s motion to toss the broker’s damages claims.