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Jury Awarded $2.5 Million in a Lead-paint Lawsuit

Posted on November 04th 2009

There was a story on baltimoresun.com about two children that a jury awarded $2.5 million in a Lead-paint lawsuit to in West Baltimore. According tot he Baltimore Sun, the jury awarded the verdict to a pair of siblings that were poisoned by lead-based paint while living in a West Baltimore rowhouse that their mother told was “lead safe” by the landlord. The siblings have permanent cognitive and behavioral disabilities that are a direct result of being exposed to lead paint in the home the family rented from City Homes, Inc for four years in the early 90s.

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Lead Poisoning: Biggest Hazard Still Old Homes

Posted on December 10th 2007

The frequency of reports regarding children’s toys and products that have been found to contain high levels of lead paint is definitely alarming.  Most of these toys are being imported from China and are being sold at larger retailers in the United States.  Those same toys are not being sold in Europe, where governments had previously imposed higher standards to keep those toys out of their markets. 

What is even more alarming though, is that the homes that the children live in througout the United States still pose the biggest threat of lead poisoning, and not the toys and other products.  In many major cities, there are several thousand children each year diagnosed with lead poisoning with the source of the poisoning specifically identified as peeling and chipping paint in their home.  Although the media has focused on the recent product recalls of products containing lead paint, there have been no lead poisonings reported that have resulted from those products.  It is great that these things are being pulled from the store shelves, but focusing on the primary threat to children (paint in older homes) should be given more attention by the government and the media.



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