ON APRIL 5, 2002, the manager of an apartment building in Manchester, N.H. was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment arising from his failure to comply with federal regulations that required his real estate management firm to warn the mother of a young child about lead paint hazards in her apartment.[1]� The prosecution came on the heels of the child’s death from lead intoxication.
New York City verdicts in individual lead paint poisoning cases have been reported as high as $3.4 million,[2]� $6.6 million,[3]� $11 million[4]� and $50 million,[5]� and the Court of Appeals, on Nov. 15, 2001, affirmed the tort doctrine that renders a landlord potentially liable for damages resulting from its failure to repair a dangerous lead paint condition of which it has notice.[6]�
