Blood Banking

Court Upholds Settlement for HIV Tainted Blood

Published in AIDS Weekly, June 19th, 1995

A blood bank trade group is partly to blame in the case of a Fair Lawn, New Jersey, man who contracted HIV from a contaminated blood transfusion during a heart bypass operation in 1984, a state appeals court says.

The court said the Maryland-based American Association of Blood Banks' (AABB) decision against recommending that blood banks test and directly question donors from high-risk groups during the first half of the 1980s resulted in "unnecessary contamination of the blood supply."

The decision upholds a $405,000 judgement against the association.

The three judge panel said the trade association can be sued even though it does...

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