Case Name: Spencer SEAL, Sherry Seal and Donnie Seal v. ST. TAMMANY PARISH HOSPITAL SERVICE DISTRICT NO. 1 D/B/A St. Tammany Parish Hospital; Sherry Dickerson Seal and Donnie Seal, Individually and on Behalf of Their Minor Children, Spencer Seal and Joshua Seal, and Mitchell Dickerson v. St. Tammany Parish Hospital Service District No. 1 D/B/A St. Tammany Parish Hospital
Court: Louisiana Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2000-01-27
Citations: 848 So. 2d 1
Docket Number: No. 99 CW 2914
Parties: Spencer SEAL, Sherry Seal and Donnie Seal v. ST. TAMMANY PARISH HOSPITAL SERVICE DISTRICT NO. 1 D/B/A St. Tammany Parish Hospital Sherry Dickerson Seal and Donnie Seal, Individually and on Behalf of Their Minor Children, Spencer Seal and Joshua Seal, and Mitchell Dickerson v. St. Tammany Parish Hospital Service District No. 1 D/B/A St. Tammany Parish Hospital
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 848
Pages: 1–3

Head Matter:
Spencer SEAL, Sherry Seal and Donnie Seal v. ST. TAMMANY PARISH HOSPITAL SERVICE DISTRICT NO. 1 D/B/A St. Tammany Parish Hospital Sherry Dickerson Seal and Donnie Seal, Individually and on Behalf of Their Minor Children, Spencer Seal and Joshua Seal, and Mitchell Dickerson v. St. Tammany Parish Hospital Service District No. 1 D/B/A St. Tammany Parish Hospital
No. 99 CW 2914.
Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.
Jan. 27, 2000.
Order Denying Rehearing April 27, 2000.

Opinion:
WRIT GRANTED. The trial court's ruling of November 12, 1999, denying relator's Motion for Summary Judgment is hereby reversed and judgment is entered in relator's favor, dismissing plaintiffs' cause of action in strict liability. We find DeBattista v. Argonaut-Southwest Ins. Co., 403 So.2d 26 (La.1981) and Faucheaux v. Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation Hosp. And Clinic, 470 So.2d 878 (La.1985) to be distinguishable from this case as those decisions were rendered before the Hepatitis C virus had been discovered and concerned circumstances where the period of time between the blood transfusion, diagnosis of Hepatitis B, and the filing of suit was relatively short, and the Hepatitis virus complained of was known to exist at the time the transfusion was given. Because those circumstances do not exist in this case, the results in DeBattista and Faucheaux do not apply to this matter. See § 402A Restatement of Torts (2d), comment k. The only cause of action available to plaintiffs in this case is negligence.