Circumstantial evidence can be used in lawsuits to show that lead was likely present in a home and poisoned a child, Maryland’s top court unanimously held Friday.

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Having represented children in Baltimore city who are victims of childhood lead poisoning for the past 23 years, I was excited to hear about Gov. Larry Hogan and Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake working together to demolish many of the vacant, dilapidated ...

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Purchasers of structured financial settlements would be barred from buying more than 25 percent of the remaining funds owed to the seller, under legislation pending in the House of Delegates.

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Is it OK for an innocent little baby or toddler to be poisoned in their own home? I can’t imagine many (or any) readers answering, “Yes, that’s fine.” Yet every single day, multiple children in Maryland are lead-poisoned by deteriorated ...

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Maryland’s top court on Thursday will consider and possibly vote on a proposed rule designed to ensure judges protect recipients of structured financial settlements from being exploited if they choose to sell them to a third party due to an imminent need for money.

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The Maryland Department of the Environment says it’s sending out 87,000 letters to landlords who haven’t registered their rental units under a law meant to reduce childhood lead poisoning. The agency said Thursday the rule applies to rental units built ...

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Lead-paint plaintiffs’ attorneys say plan to ask the Court of Special Appeals to report an opinion issued Thursday striking down what they call a common defense argument in lead-paint cases. An unanimous appellate panel held that a loss of IQ ...

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Circumstantial evidence can be used to show that lead was likely present in a home and poisoned a child, a Maryland appeals court has held in reviving a woman’s lead-paint poisoning lawsuit even though the Baltimore house where she lived as a baby was never tested for the toxin.

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Hours after a Baltimore jury in late April awarded Terrance Smith Jr. $9.3 million in damages for his lead-paint poisoning lawsuit, one of his lawyers praised jurors for seeing the case through despite the riots following Freddie Gray’s death. The ...

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A Montgomery County attorney who advised an illiterate, intellectually disabled young woman on the sale of her structured settlement is now facing a legal malpractice suit alleging he failed to meet with her or counsel her on the potential consequences ...

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