BROWN v. UNITED BLOOD SERVICES

No. 21686.

858 P.2d 391 (1993)

Becky BROWN, Personal Representative of Jeffrey Clark, Deceased, Appellant/Cross-Respondent, v. UNITED BLOOD SERVICES, Respondent/Cross-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

August 25, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert C. Herman, Carson City, and Holland & Hart and A. Bruce Jones, Denver, CO, for appellant/cross-respondent.

Wait & Shaffer, Reno, and Lewis & Roca and Foster Robberson, Phoenix, AZ, for respondent/cross-appellant.

Robert A. Grayson, Carson City, and Williams, Youle & Koenigs, Denver, CO, for amicus College of American Pathologists.

Hibbs, Roberts, Lemons, Grundy & Eisenberg, Reno, and Arnold & Porter, Washington, DC, for amicus American Red Cross and American Ass'n of Blood Banks.


OPINION

PER CURIAM:

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...

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