After Baltimore City Circuit Judge Stephen J. Sfekas admitted he had jumped the gun Friday by throwing out a $1.3 million jury verdict without holding a hearing, he warned the plaintiffs’ lawyers to consider his oral ruling a “blueprint of my opinion.”

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Amafica Woodland can keep her $690,000 lead-paint verdict against the Housing Authority of Baltimore City, even though her family missed the 180-day deadline for notifying HABC of the claim by nearly a dozen years.

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A Baltimore City Circuit Court jury has awarded $1.3 million to a woman who suffered brain damage after being exposed to lead paint as a child more than 20 years ago.

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Alleged victims of lead-paint poisoning in Baltimore need not notify their former landlords before conducting lead-paint tests unless the landlords still own or control the property, Maryland’s top court held Tuesday.

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ANNAPOLIS — “Unlike the bullet or the misplaced banana peel, the effect of toxic substances on the body is often subtle and slow, leaving cause uncertain.” That’s not how many judges begin their official written opinions, but for Maryland Court ...

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City Homes Inc.’s filing for bankruptcy protection last week will not stop the more than 70 pending lead-paint-poisoning claims against the Baltimore landlord, plaintiffs’ attorneys said.

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With a new chief judge in the center seat, the Court of Appeals heard argument Wednesday on whether former Baltimore homeowners must be notified before plaintiffs have the properties tested for lead paint in lawsuits in which the ex-owners are named defendants.

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The Housing Authority of Baltimore City should not have had to use federal money meant for low-income housing to satisfy several lead-paint poisoning judgments, a lawyer for the successful plaintiffs said Tuesday.

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The Court of Appeals has reinstated two lead-paint lawsuits in Baltimore, citing a month-old opinion that said the source of lead paint exposure can be established through circumstantial evidence – that is, without expert testimony.

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The source of lead paint exposure can be established through circumstantial evidence, without expert testimony, the Court of Appeals held Friday.

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