Court overturns verdicts in Milwaukee lead paint poisoning trial
A federal appeals court has thrown out a historic verdict against paint companies a jury found responsible for the lead poisoning suffered by three men who lived in old Milwaukee houses as toddlers. Those three cases were among about 170 lead poisoning cases filed after the Wisconsin Supreme Court's controversial 2005 ruling that expanded potential liability of lead pigment manufacturers and before the Legislature closed that avenue in 2011. The three cases were the first to go to trial. Jurors in the combined trial found three companies responsible for the brain damage and resulting life l...