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Lead Poisoning

Lead poisoning is a preventable disease but remains the No.1 environmental health threat to children in this country. The most common source of lead is lead paint that was used to paint interior walls before it was outlawed in 1960. If you live in a building that was before 1960 and has peeling areas of paint, those peeling areas can give off lead dust. When children crawl around the house and put their fingers in their mouths, they are ingesting lead which goes into the bloodstream and forms deposits in the brain. In 1970 when MADELINE BRYER was a caseworker at Long Island College Hospital and saw the needless devastation that lead poisoning causes, she wrote to then-Senator George McGovern about the problem. George McGovern was so moved by her letter that he requested her permission to read her letter into the Congressional Record. Now as an attorney she is able to fight for children injured needlessly by lead poisoning because of the negligence of their landlord, physician, hospital and/or the City.

Landlords are required to keep their property in good repair - that includes fixing areas of peeling paint. If you live in an older building with peeling paint, complain to your landlord and insist that he repair it. Make sure that your child is tested at a medical clinic or private doctor for lead poisoning. Today if a health care provider finds a child with a lead level of 10 micrograms per deciliter or more, they are required to report these lead levels to the Department of Health. If the child's lead level is above 20 or if there are two consecutive tests above 15, the City will send a public health sanitarian to the home to inspect for lead paint violations. If the Department of Health finds lead violations, they issue an Order to the landlord to repair the violations. If the landlord fails to correct the violations within 16 days, the Department of Health is supposed to refer the case to the emergency repair service of the Department of Housing, Preservation and Development.

Unfortunately, the City does not always do what it is required to do. Under certain circumstances the City can be held responsible for its failure. MADELINE BRYER was one of the first attorneys to successfully sue the City for its failure to correct lead violations and has lectured to other attorneys on this area of the law. In other cases, MADELINE BRYER has successfully sued the City for placing children in shelters or other facilities that had lead violations.

If your child or a child that you know has been diagnosed with lead poisoning, call MADELINE to find out whether you have a right to sue for the damage that was done to your child. It is important to take care of the economic needs that your child will have because of these injuries whether they be future educational needs or lost income because of diminished earning potential.

Help insure that landlords, the City and health care providers act responsibly. Call MADELINE BRYER at 212-370-0630.

 

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