Rogers v. Virginia Blood Services

By Judge Randall G. Johnson

This is a wrongful death case. It is before the court on defendant’s plea of charitable immunity. An evidentiary hearing was held on March 29.

The motion for judgment alleges that plaintiff’s husband and decedent, Ronald Joe Rogers (“Rogers”), died following a liver transplant at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville on September 26, 2002. According to the motion for judgment, the cause of death was contaminated blood administered to Rogers during the transplant. The blood was provided by the defendant, Virginia Blood Services. It is Virginia…