A federal judge in Colorado has declined to certify a class of patients who said Colorado-based healthcare clinic operator DaVita Healthcare Partners administered potentially hazardous dialysis products that increased their risk of suffering a heart attack.

On Thursday, U.S. District Judge R. Brooke Jackson in Colorado said that individual issues were "so central" to plaintiffs' claims that certifying a class of as many as 300,000 members "would not achieve significant economies of time, effort and expense." Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro represented the proposed class.

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