Have there been any successful legal claims for compensation involving people with haemophilia and HCV?
As far as we know, no-one in this country has received compensation for being infected with HCV as a result of receiving contaminated Factor VIII. Some people received compensation in March 2001 for being infected with HCV as a result of receiving contaminated whole blood. The Claimants in that case were not haemophiliacs but were patients who received transfusions of whole blood during surgery or childbirth. The case concerned the delay in implementing a screening programme rather than heat-treatment, as whole blood cannot be heat-treated. As they received blood transfusions between 1988 and 1991 their claims were brought under the Consumer Protection Act 1987, which imposes strict liability on manufacturers and suppliers. There was no need to establish negligence, it was sufficient to prove that the product they supplied was defective. However, the Defendants argued that the blood was not defective and also that, even if the blood was defective, they could not be liable for those def
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