An ex-husband, who allegedly falsely advertised online that his ex-wife was offering to provide sexual services, did not owe his ex-wife a sufficient duty to establish liability for negligent infliction of emotional distress, a court of common pleas judge has ruled.
The court also tossed a claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress because the ex-wife failed to allege specifically what the online advertisement said. It also threw out a claim against the ex-husband’s employer for invasion of privacy, an intentional tort, for having been pleaded as the product of the employer’s allegedly negligent reckless or careless conduct.
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