Medical Record Company Wins Suit, but Only as to Lead Plaintiffs

Medical record company Ciox Health LLC isn’t liable to patients for overcharging for records access, but the ruling only applies to the named plaintiffs in the certified class action, the Sixth Circuit held Dec. 5.

Ciox won summary judgment after the class was certified but before notice was sent to absent class members.

“Class certification remains functionally incomplete until class members receive notice,” the court said. “Post-judgment notice would only invite parties to enter a fight that they already lost.”

Therefore the ruling applies only to only two people instead of the thousands of class members. Those putative class members ...