A Baltimore City Circuit Court jury awarded $9.3 million on Wednesday to a man who claimed he was poisoned by lead-based paint at his former northwest Baltimore rowhouse. Terrance Smith Jr.'s award includes $7.9 million in noneconomic damages, which will be capped at $350,000 based on the state's cap for such damages, according to one of his lawyers.

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The opinion affirmed a jury verdict last year dismissing a lawsuit against the Kennedy Krieger Institute filed by the family of Tyron N. White.

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A Baltimore jury has awarded $565,000 to two cousins who claimed they were poisoned by lead-based paint in their former East Baltimore rowhouse.

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Appellant maintains that the court erred in excluding Dr. Klein’s testimony regarding the causal nexus between the injuries sustained and the Property being the source of the lead paint exposure. Appellee responds that Dr. Klein lacked the sufficient factual basis to opine as to either.

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This lead paint case involves two potential sources of lead exposure to appellant, one of which was never tested for lead and has since been destroyed. The question is whether enough circumstantial evidence was presented regarding negligence at the untested property to raise a jury question and survive summary judgment.

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It was a study that led to changes in how landlords in Maryland must deal with lead paint in their properties and became a template for federal guidelines.

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A Baltimore City Circuit Court jury has awarded more than $5 million to two West Baltimore women who suffered permanent brain damage after being exposed to lead paint when they were babies.

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A Democratic candidate for House of Delegates in Baltimore County faces tens of thousands in unpaid fines related to lead paint hazards at a Baltimore City property

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A Baltimore City Circuit Court jury awarded more than $2 million to a teenager who suffered permanent brain damage after being exposed to lead paint as a baby.

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The thicker the courthouse folder, the more likely it's lead-paint lawsuit. Then I came across a lawsuit so big it didn't even fit into a folder.

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