CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Privileges
......Litigation Privilege
.........Common Interest Privilege
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Chiropractor did not establish probability of prevailing on defamation claim where common interest privilege of CC 47(c) protected claims investigator's statements to assistant of lawyer representing insurance claimants treated by P.

In including new language in 1994 amendment to CC §47 (c), Legislature did not intend to make common-interest privilege inapplicable in employment reference context on a showing of D’s mere negligence.