Legal Opinion
Belle Bonfils Memorial Blood Bank v. Hansen
Supreme Court of Colorado
Decided June 13, 1983No. 81SC370PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DUBOFSKY, Justice.
We granted certiorari to review the unpublished opinion of the Court of Appeals in Hansen v. Belle Bonfils Memorial Blood Bank, No. 80CA1173 (September 10, 1981), which held that the exception to strict liability for unavoidably unsafe products does not apply to transfused blood contaminated by hepatitis virus. We reverse the judgment of the Court of Appeals and remand the case for further proceedings.
The plaintiff-respondent, Muriel Hansen, contracted hepatitis in early 1971 after receiving a transfusion of blood supplied by the defendant-petitioner, Belle Bonfils Memorial…
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