The State - News from Dec. 2, 1988
A Superior Court jury in San Francisco found a blood bank responsible for a case of AIDS in a 6-year-old boy who contracted it through a transfusion. Irwin Memorial Blood Bank of San Francisco, which supplies blood to about 40 hospitals in eight counties, failed to properly screen blood for the virus that causes AIDS, said attorney Michael Moriarty, who won the case of behalf of Michael Osborn of Sacramento. The jury awarded the child’s family $550,000 in compensatory damages. They were also awarded $200,000 to pay for past and future medical bills.
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