Source: http://www.cem.va.gov What Do You Need to Consider? Do you perform clearing, grading, or excavation activities? Do you build roads, golf courses, playing fields, homes, or buildings? Are you involved in demolition activities? Will you discharge dredged or fill material to a waterway or wetland? Are you involved in tunnel or pipeline projects? If so, […]

Source: http://hamptonroads.com, October 26, 2015 By: Sarah Kleiner Rick Ilich was at his wit’s end. His dream home in the Saddlebrook Estates neighborhood had been silently poisoning his family for years. It had been built in 2006 with toxic drywall, which filled the air with hydrogen sulfide, a dangerous gas that corrodes metal and can […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, August 17, 2015 By: T. McRoy Shelley III, Rogers Townsend & Thomas PC NEW NGC, INC. v. ACE AMERICAN INSURANCE CO., Dist. Court, WD North Carolina 2015 – Google Scholar. Insurance carriers have been pretty successful in denying coverage for Chinese Drywall claims, even in jurisdictions where the “middle ground” approach has been […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, August 11, 2015 By: George B. Hall, Jr., Phelps Dunbar LLP A federal court in North Carolina held that a pollution exclusion excludes coverage for property damage and bodily injury resulting from defective drywall. New NGC, Inc. v. Ace American Ins. Co., 2015 WL 2259172 (W.D. N.C. May 13, 2015). A manufacturer of drywall […]

Source: http://www.miamiherald.com, May 19, 2015 By: Nicholas Nehamas A luxury condo tower in Brickell has found defective Chinese drywall in 29 of its units — and will have to pay $3.3 million to have it removed and replaced. Defective drywall is strongly associated with the release of foul-smelling sulfurous gases that damage building materials, appliances, […]

Source: http://hamptonroads.com, March 20, 2015 By: Sarah Kleiner Varble A Chinese drywall case with a “long and tortured history” took a dramatic turn this week when the manufacturer of toxic imports pledged to pay a 5-year-old debt to seven Hampton Roads families. Taishan Gypsum Co. Ltd. was ordered by a New Orleans judge in April […]

Source: http://www.floridaconstructionlawyerblog.com, May 4, 2010 By: Siegfried, Rivera, Hyman, Lerner, De La Torre, Mars & Sobel, P.A. Construction law attorneys in Florida and several other states are keeping a close eye on several cases in federal court in Louisiana, where a judge recently awarded $164,000 for the costs of removing Chinese drywall from a home […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, February 19, 2013 By: Brian Margolies, Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry LLP In its recent decision in Cincinnati Ins. Co. v. Devon International, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 20659 (E.D. Pa. Feb. 15, 2013), the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, applying Pennsylvania law, had occasion to consider whether a […]

Read here about a $55 million Chinese drywall settlement that has been reached with Florida homeowners.

Read here about a Chinese drywall case that has been dragging on for two years.

Source: Dow Jones News Service, March 24, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A Florida court ruling could further relieve home builders of some liability in the ongoing dispute over the use of Chinese drywall, potentially limiting how much they have to pay homeowners complaining the defective product has driven down home values and caused health problems. […]

Source: Lawyers USA, March 14, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The Virginia legislature has passed a pair of measures aimed at preventing more homeowners from the dangers of tainted Chinese drywall. Senate Bill 1294 bars the sale of Chinese drywall, although not the sale of a home with Chinese drywall installed. It awaits the governor’s signature, […]