Lead-Paint Bill Would Let Baltimore Sue for Past Damages

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Title: Lead-Paint Bill Would Let Baltimore Sue for Past Damages

Date: 03-09-2017 09:43 AM

Summary: Bills that would hold accountable those whose products cause lead poisoning, and taking lead out of drinking water, are moving through legislative committees in the General Assembly this session.

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The House Judiciary Committee heard testimony Wednesday on a bill that would allow plaintiffs—ostensibly the city of Baltimore and landlords—to broadly sue manufacturers of lead-based paint for property or economic damages caused by the presence of lead-based paint in residential buildings.

Oh for ####s sake really .....

Under the act, a plaintiff would have to prove that damages were caused by lead-based paint, that the manufacturer produced the paint, and that the manufacturer "breached a legally recognized duty" to the plaintiff in the process of "selling, manufacturing, promoting, or distributing" the tainted paint, according to a state fiscal analysis.

"The whole problem with suing a paint manufacturer is you have to prove your case," Pica told the University of Maryland's Capital News Service. "In order to do that you have to (prove) that the defendant caused the injury. Lead paint wasn't banned until 1978, (if your house is older than that) you have to find out who put the paint on the house (and which manufacturer's paint they were using) and that's impossible to do."

This bill takes a different approach at holding paint manufacturers accountable by "relaxing the rules of causation," as Pica put it.

 

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Oh for ####s sake really .....

What Bullsh1t.

How the hell can they tell what company manufactured paint that was put on a house before 1978.?
How can manufacturers be held accountable for a product that was perfectly legal 40 years ago.>
The painter is probably dead or retired.
The company may be out of business.
Now tell me there is no statute of limitations on a paint job.