It's not defamation if it's true. Know the law before you start making these types of analogies. If I own a restaurant and serve dog shit in place of the hamburger that's on my menu, you don't really think it's defamation to tell people that it's dog shit do you? You are 100% wrong on this legal issue. Truth is an absolute defense to slander or libel.
WRONG. Serving dog shit is illegal and criminal. Horrible analogy.
This situation is akin to someone standing in front of a restaurant and telling those entering that the cook has Hepatitis. What you're doing is defaming the restaurant and costing them business. That's compensable in court.
Another example is someone you owe money to coming to your sales job at a dealership and telling customers that you're a cheat and a scam artist and not to buy cars from you. You're not allowed to do that because he owes you money. That's slander.
Slander is making accusations as if they were fact. "Gynecologist is a Scam Artist" is a slanderous statement because he never said he wasn't going to pay. He simply wanted extra time. Since there were no agreements on when he'd pay, he had every right to request extra time. For all we know he could have done this with 1000 others and gone smoothly each time. Just because he may have been slow to pay with one he's suddenly a "scam artist"?If slow paying makes you a scam artist then I guess Neteller is a scam artist too.