Posted On: June 23, 2006
$825,000 for Lead-Paint Ingestion
A mother who claimed that her son's cognitive defects were due to ingestion of peeling lead based paint accepted $825,000 on June 7 to settle her suit against a landlord. Jonathan Rodriguez will receive monthly payments of $2,968 at age 18, which likely will yield more than $6 million.
According to the suit, Teresa Perez asked her landlord, Maurice Wolfe, to remove the peeling paint when Jonathan was 2 years old. After six months went by with no response, a test showed such high levels of lead that Jonathan was hospitalized for removal of the lead.
Perez sued in Hudson County in 2003 over Jonathan's neurodevelopmental disabilities, cognitive defects and learning disabilities.
(This information appeared in the New Jersey Law Journal)
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