Damages in Balto. Co. Exxon leak suit rise to $1.5 billion

Baltimore County jurors returned a verdict for punitive damages against ExxonMobil Corp. on Thursday that raises the total award stemming from an underground gasoline leak in 2006 to more than $1.5 billion, a figure that a plaintiffs' lawyer says could make it the largest judgment ever in a case of this type.

By Arthur Hirsch, The Baltimore Sun

July 1, 2011