Riley v. Becton Dickinson Vascular Access, Inc.

MEMORANDUM

TROUTMAN, Senior District Judge.

The above-captioned action arises from a tragic accident in which the plaintiff, a twenty-three year old nurse, contracted the HIV virus as a result of being stuck with an I.V. catheter needle after initiating an I.V. in a patient in the Intensive Care Unit of Community Hospital of Lancaster where she was employed. 1

Plaintiff asserts that defendant, Becton Dickinson Vascular Access, Inc., is strictly hable for her injury in that the I.V. catheter, an Angiocath manufactured by defendant and used by plaintiff to initiate the I.V., is unsafe for its…