Legal Opinion
R.F. v. Abbott Laboratories
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided February 29, 2000PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
GARIBALDI, J.
In September 1986, plaintiff, R.F., received a transfusion of blood incident to surgery, that was infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (“HIV”), causing her to subsequently test positive for the presence of that virus. The blood which was transfused into R.F. had been previously screened for HIV infection at the Bergen Community Blood Center (“BCBC”) with the first commercially-available HIV blood screening test, manufactured by defendant, Abbott Laboratories (“Abbott”), available on the commercial market between March 1985 and…
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