BELLE BONFILS MEMORIAL BLOOD BANK v. HANSEN

No. 81SC370.

665 P.2d 118 (1983)

BELLE BONFILS MEMORIAL BLOOD BANK, Petitioner, v. Muriel HANSEN and Carl Hansen, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

June 13, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hansen & Breit, John L. Breit, Susan Smith Fisher, Denver, for petitioner.

Bennett S. Aisenberg, Lawrence Litvak, Denver, for respondents.


DUBOFSKY, Justice.

We granted certiorari to review the unpublished opinion of the Court of Appeals in Hansen v. Belle Bonfils Memorial Blood Bank, No. 80CA1173 (September 10, 1981), which held that the exception to strict liability for unavoidably unsafe products does not apply to transfused blood contaminated by hepatitis virus. We reverse the judgment of the Court of Appeals and remand the case for further proceedings.

The plaintiff-respondent, Muriel...

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