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Article: Week in Review - Legal Edition
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- The Daily Record (Baltimore)
- Article date:
- October 14, 2008
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Top court to hear challenge to cap
The Court of Appeals has agreed to hear a challenge to Maryland's
statutory cap on non-economic damages in a lead-paint case. Lawyers
for Kelly Green, 13, say the cap should not apply to cases that,
like hers, were filed under the state Consumer Protection Act.
Green, who suffered from lead poisoning as an infant and toddler,
now has an above-average IQ and gets good grades in school. Green
and her mother, represented by Brian S. Brown and the law firm of
Saul E. Kerpelman & Associates in Baltimore, won non-economic
damages of $2.3 million. The verdict was capped at $515,000. The
Court of Special Appeals affirmed the reduction in July. The case is
No. 296 ...