Doe v. American National Red Cross

OPINION AND ORDER

CRABB, Chief Judge.

This is a civil action in which plaintiff is suing for actual and punitive damages resulting allegedly from defendant’s negligence in the screening of donors and donated blood. Plaintiff alleges that her husband contracted the Human Immunodeficiency Virus on December 27, 1983, after receiving a post-surgical transfusion of donated blood supplied by defendant. Diversity jurisdiction is present. 28 U.S.C. § 1332.

In an,earlier order, I determined that the Supreme Court of Wisconsin would find defendant a health care provider, against whom a suit must be…