User blog comment:BastionMonk/How bad was Peter Ludlow?/@comment-1791057-20130523191135

First point: House was rightfully arrogant because of his abilities, and even then I recall he had a buttload of lawsuits stacked up against him. The only reason he was never dismissed from practicing medicine was because he was so good at his job. In Universe, a lot of people despised Gregory House, because he walked around like everybody owed him something. Ludlow doesn't have any sort of talent. He was a conniving business man who played on the Board of Director's greed in order to overthrow his uncle as CEO.

Second point: When somebody breaks a NDC (non-disclosure contract), the appropriate thing to do is to take legal action against the breaker. Malcolm should have been sued, but instead was slandered and humiliated, which is actually a criminal offense (unlike breaking an NDC, which would result in a lawsuit).