A Baltimore jury awarded $2.3 million to a man who has permanent brain damage due to exposure to lead paint as a child. DeShawn Fisher, who lived from his birth in 1993 to 1995 in a home on Baltimore’s Montpelier ...

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A Baltimore jury this week awarded more than $1.7 million to a brain-damaged victim of lead poisoning sustained during the 18 months the then-preschooler lived in a rental property in the city in the late 1990s. The circuit court jury ...

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The Court of Special Appeals reversed a trial judge’s approval of a settlement with victims of an exploitative lead paint settlement scheme, finding the parties could not bargain away the Maryland Consumer Protection Division’s right to seek restitution from the ...

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A Baltimore jury awarded $2.2 million to a man who has permanent brain damage from having been exposed to lead paint as a child. After deliberating for two days and one hour on the third day, a jury of two ...

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A Baltimore jury has awarded $1.8 million to a woman who has permanent brain damage from being exposed to lead paint as a child. The jury deliberated for nearly two hours following a five-day trial before awarding Lea Gardner, 21, ...

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A Baltimore jury awarded $3 million to a woman exposed to lead paint as a child, the third and largest verdict she has received in a case that has been reversed twice due to issues with expert testimony. The jury ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court rejected appeals from Sherwin-Williams Co. and Conagra Brands Inc., leaving intact a ruling that requires them to pay more than $400 million for lead-paint remediation in California.

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The Kennedy Krieger Institute can potentially be held liable to the brothers and sisters of participants in its controversial lead-paint abatement study in Baltimore.

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ANNAPOLIS – An attorney for Kennedy Krieger Institute told a skeptical Maryland high court Tuesday the research facility owed no legal duty to siblings of participants in its controversial 1990s lead-paint abatement study in Baltimore and thus cannot be sued ...

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Maryland’s top court will determine if siblings of participants in the Kennedy Krieger Institute’s lead-paint abatement study more than 20 years ago can sue the institute for negligence. The Court of Appeals on Monday granted Kennedy Krieger’s petition for writ ...

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