BISHOP v. FARHAT

Nos. A97A1113 to A97A1116.

489 S.E.2d 323 (1997)

227 Ga. App. 201

BISHOP et al. v. FARHAT et al. BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORPORATION et al. v. BISHOP et al. ANSELL, INC. v. BISHOP et al. DELTA MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC. v. BISHOP et al.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Reconsideration Denied July 10, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Meadows, Ichter & Trigg, Lauren S. Antonino, Steven M. Kushner, Doffermyre, Shields, Canfield & Knowles, Ralph I. Knowles, Jr., Atlanta, for Bishop et al.

Yamin Farhat, pro se.

Alembik, Fine & Callner, Lowell S. Fine, Heidi K. Martin, Atlanta, for Safeskin Corporation and Delta Medical Systems, Inc.

Alston & Bird, Bernard Taylor, Laura L. Owens, James C. Grant, G. Conley Ingram, Atlanta, for Baxter Healthcare Corporation.

Love & Willingham, John A. Gilleland, Richard J. Warren, Atlanta, for Ansell, Inc.


RUFFIN, Judge.

Jill Bishop, a nurse, filed this complex products liability action against several manufacturers and distributors of latex examination and surgical gloves. Bishop claims that her use of the defendants' gloves in her work with doctors' offices and hospitals over the course of several years caused her to develop a severe allergy to the proteins contained in latex. She alleges that on February 5, 1993, she had...

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