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Justices order new trial over 1995 AIDS death

Published in AIDS Weekly, July 19th, 2004

Improper remarks from a defense lawyer triggered a new trial for a Kanawha County, West Virginia, lawsuit filed over the AIDS-related death of an injured coal miner.

In a 4-1 ruling, the state Supreme Court reversed a 2000 verdict that had cleared Charleston Area Medical Center and Edward Wright, MD, of blame in the death of Freddie Grounds.

Grounds, a hemophiliac, required a blood transfusion at CAMC after he was struck in the chest with a mine timber in 1983. The blood product he received, manufactured by a division of Bayer Corp., was infected. He was diagnosed with AIDS 3 years later and died in 1995.

Grounds transmitted the...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2004-07-19)

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