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Casenotes: Medical Malpractice — Limitation Of Actions — Discovery Rule Denies Preliminary Investigation Period Because Knowledge Of Facts Raising The Inquiry Satisfies Actual Notice Requirement. Lutheran Hospital V. Levy, 60 Md. App. 227, 482 A.2d 23 (1984), Cert. Denied, 302 Md. 288, 487 A.2d 292 (1985), Edward T. Pinder
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Comments: Transfusion-Associated Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (Aids): Blood Bank Liability?, David A. Roling
Comments: Transfusion-Associated Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (Aids): Blood Bank Liability?, David A. Roling
University of Baltimore Law Review
The Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) can be contracted via a blood transfusion. A legal question of growing importance in Maryland and across the country is whether a blood bank which supplies AIDS-tainted blood should be liable to a blood transfusee for the contraction of AIDS. Inherent in that question is a balancing of society's need to protect blood banks from liability and the individual's right of recovery. This comment examines that question. The author begins with a historical review of blood bank liability for blood tainted with viruses other than AIDS and then discusses various theories of liability under which …