Odoriferous drywall is focus of class-action lawsuit
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Is this a construction defect problem in California? From ‘Lawsuits filed over Chinese-made drywall’ at latimes.com:
Is stinking drywall the new black mold? That would be the general drift of a handful of lawsuits filed in Florida against the manufacturers of sulfur-tainted drywall manufactured in China and the builders that installed it during the housing boom. Some who are sounding the alarm about the building product say it was distributed in many states, including California, and may have been installed in tens of thousands of homes, sickening residents and causing structural damage. They have likened the problem to the wave of construction-defect litigation over mold, which peaked earlier this decade.
L.A. Land checked in with Paul Midler, author of ‘Poorly Made in China,’ who has seen ‘quality fade’ in many Chinese products -- that’s the practice of widening profit margins by reducing the quality of materials used -- but nothing specific to drywall yet.
A national class-action lawsuit has been filed by Coral Gables, Fla., attorney Ervin A. Gonzales claiming that residents of homes containing the drywall in question have experienced respiratory, nose and throat problems. Anyone out there in a home built around 2004-2006 having drywall odor problems?
--Lauren Beale
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