Brown v. United Blood Services

OPINION

This difficult case invokes an examination of the law pertaining to a blood bank’s liability to a transfusion recipient who developed the AIDS virus after receiving blood from an infected donor. For the reasons discussed below, we conclude that the activities of blood banks at issue herein are subject to a professional standard of care, and that appellant failed to show at trial that the procedures adopted and followed by respondent United Blood Services fell below this standard. Accordingly, we reverse and remand for entry of judgment in favor of United Blood Services.

FACTS

On June 5,…