Lead was banned from paint products in 1978. Yet it was not until 1991 when the Center for Disease Control (CDC) lowered the acceptable amount of lead in the bloodstream from 25 micrograms per deciliter to 10 micrograms per deciliter that lead paint poisoning cases really started to explode. By lowering the threshold at which a diagnosis of lead poisoning could be made from 25 to 10 ug/dl, the CDC created thousands of children as new potential plaintiffs.
With the passage of Local Law 1[1]� in 1982, and the Court of Appeals decision of Juarez v. Wavecrest Management LTD,[2]� lead poisoning cases had become almost certain winners. Verdicts were being obtained for hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions, for blood lead levels in the 20s.
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