TO BREAK THE paint industry’s 15-year winning streak in lead liability cases, a team of New England litigators abandoned the standard products liability theories in favor of a novel application of the common law doctrine of public nuisance.
The long march in what popularly has been called the Rhode Island lead paint case began in 1999. It culminated in February with a jury verdict requiring three companies to abate lead contamination in the state’s housing stock.
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