McEVILLY v. RUSH PRESBYTERIAN ST. LUKE'S MED. CTR.

No. 90 C 5413.

765 F.Supp. 434 (1991)

Florence McEVILLY, Special Administrator of the Estate of William R. McEvilly, Deceased, Plaintiff, v. RUSH PRESBYTERIAN ST. LUKE'S MEDICAL CENTER, John L. Showel, John L. Showel, M.D., Ltd., James A. Hunter, American Red Cross, the Blood Center of Northern Illinois, and Lifesource, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, E.D.

May 1, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Freeman Galland, Jr., Mark Steven Kende, Davis, Miner, Barnhill and Galland, P.C., Ronald L. Lipinski, Thomas Hill Peckham, Timothy P. Payne, Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson, Chicago, Ill., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

ROVNER, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

Plaintiff Florence McEvilly ("plaintiff") filed this action in an Illinois state court on behalf of the estate of her deceased husband, William R. McEvilly ("McEvilly"), alleging that he contracted Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome ("AIDS") after receiving an infusion of blood contaminated with Human Immune Deficiency Virus ("HIV"). The American Red Cross (the "Red Cross") removed...

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