In a recent development regarding the Chinese drywall trials (and the issue as a whole for that matter ) a Chinese manufacturer has settled its first suit – Knauf Plasterboard Tianjin Co. settled just days ago, on Friday. Read the source article, from CBS, here.
Chinese drywall – Once all the potentially affected components have been removed and the house has been aired out and cleansed, the property is subject to certification. An engineering company must certify the home is habitable.
Judge Eldon Fallon awarded damages of $2.6 million Thursday to the owners of seven homes in Virginia, reported the Herald Tribune Friday.
A Chinese drywall ruling was made on Thursday, April 8, by U.S. District Judge Eldon E. Fallon in New Orleans, awarding seven Virginia homeowners $2.6 million in damages.
The seven Virginia homeowners were chosen as representatives of homes affected by the toxic Chinese drywall across the country- one Virginia Beach family, two in Newport News, and four in Williamsburg.
Homeowners target ‘toxic’ Chinese drywall
March 29: After millions of sheets of Chinese drywall were imported into the U.S. after mass destruction from the 2005 hurricane season caused a shortage of U.S materials, a federal lawsuit is now demanding that a Chinese manufacturer pay damages for what they say were toxic materials. NBC’s Mark Potter reports
It goes without saying that Chinese drywall has destroyed thousands of homes from Virginia to Florida to Louisiana and many places in between. But if you have not been personally hit by this disaster you may not realize just how much of an effect it has on homeowners. WDBJ7.com recently ran a story on this [...]
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has seen complaints flow in surrounding toxic Chinese drywall from more states than not, but some specifically have been hit the hardest.
Jim Cheng, the Secretary of Trade and Commerce for Virginia, toured homes in Newport news. Specifically, two homes in a development known as Hollymeade. The community is off of the highly traveled Denbigh Boulevard.
As we reported yesterday, the first of the Chinese drywall trials in federal court (Eastern District of Louisiana, Multi District Litigation), is scheduled to start February 19, 2010. That trial though, is only pertinent to the Chinese-owned manufacturer, Taishan Gypsum.
Virginia’s new secretary of commerce and trade, Jim Cheng, is expected to tour homes affected by Chinese drywall in the very near future. Although bad weather has stopped him from making as much progress as he would like, it is safe to say that Cheng is aware of the importance of his visit to these [...]
