A lawyer explains when you can sue over a bad Google review. False claims that you committed fraud or are incompetent count as defamation. Professionals like doctors and lawyers can win damages without proving financial loss if someone questions their competence.
reviews that are truly false, right? If it says they're frauds, right? Well, they've just accused you of a crime. So that's defamation, that's libel. So, you know, that's actionable. You could sue for that. And when, again, in every state in the US, they all have what are called defamation per se, P-E-R-S-E, right? Two words, meaning that if you are a professional, right? And something is negatively said about your professional acumen or your professional services, you don't even have to prove how much you're damaged. You can just say, I've been damaged a million dollars, right? So Monica Gilroy is a, is a liar and a fraud. Well, I'm an attorney, right? I'm in a profession, and I could sue them for that and say, you've just cost me $10 million, right? Absolutely. My thought is, is that consumer protection wouldn't necessarily outweigh, you know, what two parties could contract to do, because that's, that's important.
