Tulsa Professional Collection Services, Inc. v. Pope

OPALA, Vice Chief Justice.

Two issues are tendered for our decision in this second appeal from denial of a hospital’s quest that payment be ordered for the decedent’s last illness expenses without a timely statutory creditor’s claim:2 [1] Does Oklahoma law charge the estate representative with knowledge that the hospital where the decedent died as a paying patient was a potential creditor of the estate? and if so [2] Did the hospital effectively relinquish that which was its constitutional due — actual notice under Oklahoma’s nonclaim statute? We answer the first question in the affirmative…