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HANSEN v. BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORP.

No. 1-98-3494.

723 N.E.2d 302 (1999)

309 Ill. App.3d 869

243 Ill.Dec. 270

Steven HANSEN, Special Administrator of the Estate of Andrina Hansen, deceased, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Third Division.

Rehearing Denied January 11, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William R. Quinlan, Michael I. Rothstein, Mary Patricia Benz, David M. Jenkins, and Brian J. Alesia, from Quinlan & Crisham, Ltd., Chicago, for Appellant.

Kevin M. Forde, Janice R. Forde, and Kevin R. Malloy, from Kevin M. Forde, Ltd.; Paul B. Episcope, John C. Erb, and David S. Jasmer, from Law Offices of Paul B. Episcope, Ltd.; and John Rokacz, from John Rokacz & Associates, Chicago, for Appellee.

Justice WOLFSON delivered the opinion of the court:

In the 1880s, in Germany, Otto Luer came up with the idea of a six per cent taper as a way of putting a stopper in a bottle, keeping it there, and then getting it out again. Many years later, Luer's taper was used by hospital equipment manufacturers to ensure that one piece of iv-set tubing would fit into another.

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