Federal Judge Rejects Hospital Chain Class Action Lawsuit
A class action lawsuit, filed in April alleging HCA Inc., the nation’s largest for-profit hospital chain defrauded patients by directing its affiliated hospitals to staff its nursing units below generally accepted levels has been dismissed by U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten on the ground that the cases need to be examined individually.
The lawsuit sought class-action status and asked HCA to repay no less than $12.5 billion to millions of patients who have been treated at its hospitals.
But Marten said those cases involve medical malpractice that need to be examined on an individual basis, not in a consumer class action.
Marten ruled that HCA as a corporation could not be held liable for cases at each of its hospitals.
Filed under Class Action, General Law
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