SILVA v. SOUTHWEST FLORIDA BLOOD BANK, INC.

Nos. 77980, 78012.

601 So.2d 1184 (1992)

Gerald SILVA, etc., Petitioner, v. SOUTHWEST FLORIDA BLOOD BANK, INC., Respondent. John SMITH, et ux., etc., Petitioners, v. SOUTHWEST FLORIDA BLOOD BANK, INC., Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied August 14, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond T. Elligett, Jr. and Charles P. Schropp of Schropp, Buell & Elligett, P.A., and F. Ronald Fraley of Fraley & Fraley, and Robert A. Foster, Jr. of Robert A. Foster, Jr., P.A., Tampa, for petitioner, Silva, etc.

Elizabeth Russo of the Law Offices of Elizabeth Russo, Coconut Grove, and Peeples, Earl & Blank, Sarasota, and Anderson, Moss, Parks & Russo, P.A., Miami, for petitioners, Smith, et ux., etc.

Ted R. Manry, III and D. James Kadyk of Macfarlane, Ferguson, Allison & Kelly, Tampa, for respondent.

Kelley B. Gelb of Krupnick, Campbell, Malone & Roselli, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Andre Perron of Blalock, Landers, Walters & Vogler, P.A., Bradenton, amicus curiae for Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers.

Kennedy Legler, III of Legler & Flynn, Bradenton, amicus curiae for John Doe.

Thomas J. Guilday and Pamela K. Frazier of Huey, Guilday, Kuersteiner & Tucker, P.A., Tallahassee, amicus curiae for Florida Ass'n of Blood Banks, Inc.

Jeannette M. Andrews of Fuller, Johnson & Farrell, P.A., Tallahassee, amicus curiae for American Nat. Red Cross and American Ass'n of Blood Banks.


BARKETT, Justice.

We have before us the consolidated cases of Silva v. Southwest Florida Blood Bank, Inc., 578 So.2d 503 (Fla. 2d DCA 1991), and Smith v. Southwest Florida Blood Bank, Inc., 578 So.2d 501 (Fla. 2d DCA 1991), because of direct and express conflict with Durden v. American Hospital Supply Corp.,

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