Opinion
May 2, 1996
Appeal from the Supreme Court, New York County (Joan Lobis, J.).
The IAS Court correctly held that plaintiff's claim of intentional infliction of emotional distress is not based on defendants' termination of her employment with them, but on their repeated and intentionally false post-termination representations to both the Unemployment Office and plaintiff's prospective employers that plaintiff had never been employed by them. We agree with the IAS Court that such conduct evinces an intent on defendants' part to ruin plaintiff's chances at future employment, and is atrocious and intolerable and should not be countenanced in civilized society.
Concur — Sullivan, J.P., Ellerin, Rubin, Ross and Nardelli, JJ.