Bradway v. American National Red Cross

Hunt, Presiding Justice.

In this certified question from the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, we are asked:

Is a suit alleging that a not-for-profit blood bank was negligent in collecting and supplying human blood — including screening volunteer blood donors and testing blood for the presence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) — an action for medical malpractice and thus subject to Georgia’s statutes of limitation and repose for medical malpractice actions, OCGA § 9-3-71?

We answer the question in the affirmative.

The relevant facts, as certified by the Eleventh Circuit, are as follows:

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