Chinese Drywall Toxic?

PRLog (Press Release) – Jun 19, 2011 – Tainted corrosive drywall (TCDW) or Chinese drywall (CDW) has been a HOT topic for well over three years, a consumer nightmare for well over six years, a legal and political HOT POTATO for over 5 years.

Banner Supply Co. of Miami has agreed to pay Florida homeowners $54.5 million to repair homes damaged because of tainted drywall that it had sold to builders, plaintiffs’ attorneys announced Tuesday. The commitment comes as part of a settlement of a class …

Over the years we’ve chronicled the twists and turns in the Chinese drywall multidistrict litigation, which arose after allegedly defective drywall was installed in thousands of homes after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. (See here , here and here .) On …

Lisa and Armin Seifart won the first-ever Chinese drywall trial case and were awarded $2.4 million. LILLY ECHEVERRIA / MIAMI HERALD STAFF

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A Florida jury has awarded plaintiffs in a Chinese drywall lawsuit more than $2 million for damage done to their home. Meanwhile, in New Orleans, two Chinese drywall lawsuits filed against Knauf Plasterboard Tianjin Co …

A jury has awarded a South Florida family $2.5 million in a benchmark defective Chinese drywall case. Armin and Lisa Seifart won the judgment in a Miami-Dade civil court Friday against drywall distributor Banner Supply …

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, awarded seven Plaintiffs $2,609,129.99 for damage to their homes in connection with the use of Chinese drywall (CDW). The suit was brought against Chinese manufacturer Taishan Gypsum Co …

This holding found that Chinese drywall (CDW hereinafter) from Taishan was different than domestic drywall because it had significantly higher average concentrations of strontium & detectable levels of elemental sulfur. Court findings were consistent …