The lead paint verdicts continue to come in Baltimore City in a case almost 20 years old. A Baltimore jury awarded $2 million to a lead-poisoning victim and her mother after finding their former landlord negligently failed to remover remove flaking and peeling lead based paint from the home. The $1.5 million award will be reduced to $350,000 under the Maryland law capping non-economic damages in personal-injury cases. After the cap, the total award will be $850,000, according to the plaintiffs' injury attorneys.
Plaintiff was first tested for lead poisoning when she was 19 months old in September 1992. Her lead level was found to be 28 micrograms per deciliter, nearly three times the 10mcg/dl that the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention deems to be a level of concern for lead poisoning, according to the plaintiffs' injury lawyers.
Still, the verdict is impressive because even Plaintiff's experts will say you can get a lead level of 15 just by living in Baltimore City. Of course, the Plaintiff will only get one-third of what the what the jury wanted her to get.
