Bradway v. American National Red Cross

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that action by blood transfusion recipient against Red Cross for failure to adequately screen blood donors and test blood for infectious diseases is one for medical malpractice as opposed to ordinary negligence
• “We are convinced that the steps involved in the collection, processing and distribution of blood by the Red Cross constitute a professional medical service.”
• certified question to Georgia Supreme Court from 11th Circuit; court held that Georgia statute of repose applied to action very similar to case at bar and so action was a malpractice action rather than one for ordinary negligence
• malpractice claim against not-for-profit blood bank
• identifying phlebotomy as “a medical procedure”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).