Deegan & McGarry v. Med-Cor

Patton, Judge.

The trial court certified as a class of plaintiffs three law firms and all persons who were patients of twenty-seven hospitals in the Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati metropolitan areas who had permitted their attorneys (whether named in the suit or not) to request their medical records from seven medical records services employed by the defendant hospitals. The dispositive issue, raised in plaintiffs’ motion to dismiss this appeal, is whether the class certification order is a final, appealable order.

The plaintiff class consists of patients and their attorneys who have…