MANATEE — Homeowners can scratch radioactivity from their list of Chinese drywall concerns. State and federal officials found traces of phosphogypsum in Chinese and domestic drywall samples they tested, but levels of the radioactive phosphate byproduct were so low that they don’t pose a hazard, according to a report released Friday. “Based on the analytical [...]
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Larry Kosakowski and his fiancée, Kelly Wonderlick, can fill their living room table with their Chinese drywall battle. They’ve already found that the imported wall boards corroded electrical wiring and ate up appliances. The telltale Knauf stamp can be seen all over the attic. “The value of the property is [...]
A Slingerlands, N.Y-based company announced today that it’s apparently found a quick, permanent and relatively inexpensive way to rid houses of Chinese drywall. Chinese drywall, which emits sulfur gases into a structure where it’s used, was first identified late last year. For the most part, the houses with Chinese drywall are believed to have been [...]
TAMPA – The inside of Michele Carrone’s Riverview town home has been torn down to the studs. Crews are busy removing any remnants of toxic drywall imported from China. Carrone is one of dozens in the River Walk community who found out they have tainted drywall. She’s expected to move back in January and is [...]
The seeds of a plan to help families with tainted Chinese drywall are slowly taking root. The passing of a bill towards the end of the 2009 Legislative session in June allotted $5 million in recovery money to address the problem. It calls for the money to provide emergency rental assistance, and will be distributed [...]
WASHINGTON — New legislation could make it easier for homeowners with defective Chinese drywall to take the manufacturer to court. The Foreign Manufacturers Legal Accountability Act of 2009, introduced by Rhode Island Democratic Sen Sheldon Whitehouse, and co-sponsored by Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., attempts to make it easier to bring foreign companies before an American [...]
With thousands of homeowners claiming their houses and health are deteriorating from sulfur-emitting Chinese drywall, a federal judge in New Orleans is intent on fast-tracking a handful of cases for trial, attorneys say. The first of these bellwether lawsuits could be tried by the end of the year, a timetable that encourages homeowners to think [...]
Saipan, Guam and American Samoa received 28,778 sheets of imported Chinese drywall in 2006, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said in a report as it investigates the use of tainted Chinese drywall that has been linked to 810 incident reports since July. Tainted Chinese drywall has been tied to corrosion of metal components, foil [...]
STOCKTON – In less than a minute, Matthew Curtis confirmed that a pea-size sample of Chinese drywall contained toxic sulfur, which tends to rot copper piping and electrical wiring of homes in humid areas. After demonstrating the testing process, he pulled out a corroded piece of copper that had been contained with Chinese drywall for [...]
WASHINGTON — Bipartisan legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate aims to help victims of tainted Chinese drywall hold foreign manufacturers more accountable for their defective products. The Foreign Manufacturers Legal Accountability Act of 2009 would cut down on the red tape Americans face when they try to sue foreign companies.
