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 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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The Court of Special Appeals has affirmed rulings made at a 2014 trial in which the Kennedy Krieger Institute was found not liable by a jury for its Lead-Based Paint Abatement and Repair and Maintenance Study. The lawsuit was the ...

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A Baltimore jury on Monday awarded nearly $1.63 million to an 18-year-old man who suffers from brain damage due to lead paint poisoning he sustained from birth to age 2 at his home in the city.

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People claiming to have suffered residential lead poisoning must show a “reasonable probability” that they were exposed to the toxin at a specific home in order to get their claim to trial, Maryland’s second-highest court has held.

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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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State and federal officials Monday announced an expansion of lead paint testing in Maryland that will include all children 2 years old and younger regardless of where they live. Lt. Gov. Boyd Rutherford and Dr. Howard Haft, deputy secretary of ...

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A board-certified pediatrician with 20 years’ experience can testify to the harm caused by lead exposure but not to the source of the poisoning without having examined the child, a divided Maryland high court ruled in reviving a Baltimore lead-poisoning lawsuit.

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