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SPANN v. IRWIN MEMORIAL BLOOD CENTERS

Docket No. A063310.

34 Cal.App.4th 644 (1995)

40 Cal. Rptr.2d 360

DOUGLAS SPANN et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. IRWIN MEMORIAL BLOOD CENTERS OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MEDICAL SOCIETY, INC., et al., Defendants and Respondents. DOUGLAS SPANN, as Personal Representative, etc., Plaintiff and Appellant, v. IRWIN MEMORIAL BLOOD CENTERS OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MEDICAL SOCIETY, INC., et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Three.

April 27, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Michael James Moriarty for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Charles Bond, Jacquelyn E. Gentry, Stefanie Gandolfi, O'Connor, Cohn, Dillon & Barr, Duncan Barr and Thomas G. Manning for Defendants and Respondents.

OPINION

CHIN, P.J.

In October of 1984 Sherrie Spann received an infusion of more than 130 units of blood plasma and platelets as treatment for a life-threatening blood disease known as thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP). Although the treatment regimen was apparently successful, Ms. Spann contracted human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) from the infused blood products; she died in May of 1990 from complications due to acquired...

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