For eight years in the 1990s, Attorney Charles Ware hosted the extremely popular legal advice radio program "The Lawyer's Mailbox"; the Number One (#1)legal advice radio program in the Mid-Atlantic Region,on WEAA - 88.9 FM, Morgan State University Radio in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Saturday, August 22, 2015

BALTIMORE & MARYLAND LANDLORDS WARNED TO COMPLY WITH LEAD RULES : DEFENSE ATTORNEY REPORT

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Premier defense attorney Charles Jerome Ware is Maryland-based, nationally-recognized and respected, and ranked by his many satisfied clients and legal peers as one of the best lead paint and lead poisoning defense lawyers in the United States. For an initial courtesy consultation, contact him at (410) 720-6129. He can help you when you are being sued for lead paint and lead poisoning .


Most of  Maryland's lead paint and lead poisoning cases have occurred in Baltimore City, which has some of the oldest and most rundown housing in the state. However, children in suburban and rural areas of Maryland are also at risk of lead poisoning if they live in older apartments and houses ( pre-1978 built) that contain lead paint.


While the number of seriously poisoned children has declined dramatically since the early 1990s, the number considered at risk of harm has grown again in recent years. In 2011, the U.S. centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared research shows there is no safe exposure level for lead and reduced its threshold for action from 10 to 5 micrograms pre deciliter, half of what it had been for two decades before that.  There were 2,622 Maryland children age or younger who tested with elevated levels of lead in their blood in 2013, the most recent year for which figures are available.


Currently, many Maryland residential landlords failing to respond to the state's expanded effort to curb childhood lead poisoning, Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) officials are mass-mailing pointed reminders to tens of thousands of property owners to register their rental units or risk being fined.


In July 2015,MDE began sending letters to 87,000 owners of properties built between 1950 and 1978 that should have registered with the earlier this year if they are being rented and contain lead-based paint.


[ see, "Maryland warns landlords about lead compliance,"  The Baltimore Sun, Saturday, 08/22/2015, front page, by Timothy B. Wheeler]

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