PROVIDENCE, R.I., July 1 (UPI) -- Paint manufacturers say they scored a major victory Tuesday when the Rhode Island Supreme Court ruled they weren't liable for lead poisoning.
MILWAUKEE, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- The lead paint industry has tasted victory after a Milwaukee Circuit Court jury ruled in its favor in the first of more than 30 personal injury lawsuits.
MILWAUKEE, June 23 (UPI) -- Milwaukee lost its bid to collect millions of dollars from a manufacturer of lead paint pigment when a jury found Friday that NL Industries was not negligent.
PROVIDENCE, R.I., Feb. 23 (UPI) -- Three paint companies have been found liable for creating a public nuisance in Rhode Island by using lead-based paints going back generations. The verdict could cost the companies billions, the Providence Journal said Thursday.
MILWAUKEE, July 16 (UPI) -- The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled a Milwaukee teenager suffering from lead poisoning may take his case against several paint companies to trial.
CLEVELAND, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- Sherwin-Williams of Cleveland, Tuesday agreed to buy privately held paint brushes maker, Paint Sundry Brands of Akron, for about $295 million.
CLEVELAND, May 17 (UPI) -- Sherwin-Williams Company of Ohio said Monday it will acquire Duron Inc. of Washington.
PROVIDENCE, R.I., Oct. 29 (UPI) --
PROVIDENCE, R.I., Oct. 24 (UPI) -- A Rhode Island jury began deliberating Thursday whether paint companies created a public nuisance by making and marketing lead-based paints generations ago. The state blames lead paint for poisoning nearly 35,000 children in the state since 1993.
PROVIDENCE, R.I., Oct. 24 (UPI) -- The question facing a Rhode Island jury is whether paint companies created a public nuisance by making and marketing lead-based paints generations ago that still poison 3,000 children each year in the state. The jury was to begin deliberations Thursday fo
