Lead paint keeps weighing down Sherwin-Williams Co. A federal jury on Friday, May 31, "awarded $2 million each to three young Milwaukee men who suffered lead poisoning as toddlers from the residue of paint they ingested in their homes and found three major paint and pigment companies liable," according to this story from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. The jury found that Cleveland-based Sherwin-Williams, Armstrong Container Corp. and DuPont "acted unreasonably in marketing lead paint without proper warnings of its danger to poison children," the newspaper reports. There was to be a second phase of the trial to determine how the money would be paid, but the paper reported on Monday, June 3, that the follow-up phase has been canceled after the three companies agreed how they would pay the $6 million in damages. The Journal Sentinel said none of the three companies returned messages seeking details of the settlement agreement.