Aleman v. UHS-Pruitt Holdings, Inc.

PHIPPS, Presiding Judge.

Marcos Aleman, whose deceased wife had been a patient at a hospice affiliated with UHS-Pruitt Holdings, Inc., brought a putative class action against the hospice and UHS-Pruitt on behalf of

[a]ll surviving spouses from February 14, 1999 through the present, who have requested medical records from Defendant Hospice and/or Defendant UHS-Pruitt, and who[se] request was denied because he or she was not an administrator or executor of the respective decedent’s estate.

The trial court denied Aleman’s motion to certify a class, finding that he had “failed to show there [were]…