(January 5, 2017, 12:24 PM EST) -- BALTIMORE — A Maryland federal judge on Jan. 3 stayed an insurer’s suit seeking a declaration that it is responsible for only a portion of a $4 million judgment entered against its insureds in an underlying suit alleging injuries as a result of exposure to lead paint in the insureds’ rental property after determining that federal abstention is warranted because a state court suit filed by the underlying plaintiffs against the insurer turns on the same question of law (Pennsylvania National Mutual Casualty Insurance Co. v. Stewart J. Levitas, et al., No. 16-2060, D. Md.; 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 87)....