These people don’t deserve anything more than economic damages. What is the basis for the suit? Sue the Chinese who sent this crap onshore. Where was the federal government oversight of importing construction materials?
I love it. Shady companies overseas, lazy companies in the US, and lets blame the US government. They were practicing the “laissez faire” doctrine I read about daily on these posts.
Oh, and the basis of the suit, besides the economic cost to replace the drywall (which homeowner insurers refuse to pay), is the health ramifications of the carbon disulfide, carbonyl sulfide, and hydrogen sulfide the drywall emits. Please dig just a little deeper before you write senseless posts.
The Chinese are not going to belly up to the table, the insurors are not responsible and exclude this for a good reason, they can not calculate the exposure and charge an adequate rate. I am a tax payer and I am not interested in funding all these demolition and remodels with tax dollars. So who pays for something that was not the homeowners fault, not covered by insurance, not the builders fault, since it was the only drywall available, and the US government allowed the poison stuff to be imported in the first place. I say all the US Congress and Reps should belly up and take care of these folks out of there pocket not mine, who wants to argue that they are really to blame. But it is not going to happen and the homeowners are stuck with no recourse. Sue all you want, I think you better realize that no one is running to help in this economy. Feeling sorry for ya, but have no advise that will help you out other than to vote for candidates that will stop the import of cheap crap and poison.
Actually IT IS THE BUILDERS FAULT, they chose the supplier, they chose the drywall, they chose to save $2/sheet on a 200K-700K house, and they no doubt used clueless illegal aliens paid minimum wage to hang it.
Drywall is super cheap, there was no excuse for using imported drywall,-or illegal alien labor, housing used to be wildly profitable without cheating and substituting cheap materials and cheap supplies.
Drywall cost less than $8 for 4X8 sheet at the most, the entire material cost in drywall for the entire house was $2000 or less.
Smitty, who is responsible for allowing the imported drywall and allowing the illegal immigrants to remain here illegally. That would be the politicians. Case closed, the idiots screwed us again, did it feel good to you?
CGL excludes polution, HO3 excluded defective workmanship or faulty construction.
Where is the coverage for these lawsuits? If there is no coverage then the companies will file chapter 11 and all is over and the attorneys look for another gravy train to catch.
Homeowners polcies don’t afford any coverage fo BI to insureds so what’s your point about exposure to illness? HO insurance is not a panacea for all things. Your first comment was right on.
Quit blaming “them” or “the government”. It is Buyer Beware and those involved should take accountability for buying a defective product from the Chinese. It’s not the first time the Chinese have shipped unsafe products to the U.S. and it won’t be the last*. We can not hold the government entirely responsible as our free market drives the economy. The more power we give the government to protect us, the more freedom we surrender. We’ve paid too big a price for our freedom to simply hand it over to the government. The builder should not have purchased the product without quality control measures and the homeowner should have done more research into the type of home they were buying. Neither the government, nor insurers, can warrant the work product of a supplier or builder. That is not the intent of the Constitution nor an insurance policy. Granted, it may not have been known the product was defective to the extent it has been shown, but knowing the source of the materials should have been a warning to all. The builder needs to make it right and the homeowner needs to quit trying to exploit the situation via lawsuits. The government can put pressure on the Chinese to take accountability for their defective product and create a fund to handle the claims, as the President did with BP in response to the Gulf Coast disaster. The Chinese need to have consequences for their actions, or they will not improve their exports.
*We all need to exercise our buying power and send a clear message that we will not accept inferior goods. If we vote with our spending dollar in addition to political votes, we can have a positive affect for a better future.
Most of this drywall was not purchased from China in order to save money. It was purchased because the US supply was depleted because of the building boom.
We’re not going to get money from the Chinese even though this is where the blame lies. They live in horrid, polluted conditions and probably don’t understand what our issue is with this stuff. The next in line are the US Distributors. Like it or not, the US distributors bought this drywall and sold it for a profit. They are probably the next ones in line who need to be held responsible. They need to know what they are selling, where it came from, and whether or not it is safe.
I don’t expect the Fed Gov’t to provide a “bailout” on this. I would however like to see the Fed Gov’t deal with the Chinese in such a way (I have no idea how)to make them pay for this. Don’t we have the global size & power anymore to demand this?
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These people don’t deserve anything more than economic damages. What is the basis for the suit? Sue the Chinese who sent this crap onshore. Where was the federal government oversight of importing construction materials?
I love it. Shady companies overseas, lazy companies in the US, and lets blame the US government. They were practicing the “laissez faire” doctrine I read about daily on these posts.
Oh, and the basis of the suit, besides the economic cost to replace the drywall (which homeowner insurers refuse to pay), is the health ramifications of the carbon disulfide, carbonyl sulfide, and hydrogen sulfide the drywall emits. Please dig just a little deeper before you write senseless posts.
The Chinese are not going to belly up to the table, the insurors are not responsible and exclude this for a good reason, they can not calculate the exposure and charge an adequate rate. I am a tax payer and I am not interested in funding all these demolition and remodels with tax dollars. So who pays for something that was not the homeowners fault, not covered by insurance, not the builders fault, since it was the only drywall available, and the US government allowed the poison stuff to be imported in the first place. I say all the US Congress and Reps should belly up and take care of these folks out of there pocket not mine, who wants to argue that they are really to blame. But it is not going to happen and the homeowners are stuck with no recourse. Sue all you want, I think you better realize that no one is running to help in this economy. Feeling sorry for ya, but have no advise that will help you out other than to vote for candidates that will stop the import of cheap crap and poison.
Actually IT IS THE BUILDERS FAULT, they chose the supplier, they chose the drywall, they chose to save $2/sheet on a 200K-700K house, and they no doubt used clueless illegal aliens paid minimum wage to hang it.
Drywall is super cheap, there was no excuse for using imported drywall,-or illegal alien labor, housing used to be wildly profitable without cheating and substituting cheap materials and cheap supplies.
Drywall cost less than $8 for 4X8 sheet at the most, the entire material cost in drywall for the entire house was $2000 or less.
The builders should be shot and pissed on.
Smitty, who is responsible for allowing the imported drywall and allowing the illegal immigrants to remain here illegally. That would be the politicians. Case closed, the idiots screwed us again, did it feel good to you?
CGL excludes polution, HO3 excluded defective workmanship or faulty construction.
Where is the coverage for these lawsuits? If there is no coverage then the companies will file chapter 11 and all is over and the attorneys look for another gravy train to catch.
Homeowners polcies don’t afford any coverage fo BI to insureds so what’s your point about exposure to illness? HO insurance is not a panacea for all things. Your first comment was right on.
Quit blaming “them” or “the government”. It is Buyer Beware and those involved should take accountability for buying a defective product from the Chinese. It’s not the first time the Chinese have shipped unsafe products to the U.S. and it won’t be the last*. We can not hold the government entirely responsible as our free market drives the economy. The more power we give the government to protect us, the more freedom we surrender. We’ve paid too big a price for our freedom to simply hand it over to the government. The builder should not have purchased the product without quality control measures and the homeowner should have done more research into the type of home they were buying. Neither the government, nor insurers, can warrant the work product of a supplier or builder. That is not the intent of the Constitution nor an insurance policy. Granted, it may not have been known the product was defective to the extent it has been shown, but knowing the source of the materials should have been a warning to all. The builder needs to make it right and the homeowner needs to quit trying to exploit the situation via lawsuits. The government can put pressure on the Chinese to take accountability for their defective product and create a fund to handle the claims, as the President did with BP in response to the Gulf Coast disaster. The Chinese need to have consequences for their actions, or they will not improve their exports.
*We all need to exercise our buying power and send a clear message that we will not accept inferior goods. If we vote with our spending dollar in addition to political votes, we can have a positive affect for a better future.
Most of this drywall was not purchased from China in order to save money. It was purchased because the US supply was depleted because of the building boom.
We’re not going to get money from the Chinese even though this is where the blame lies. They live in horrid, polluted conditions and probably don’t understand what our issue is with this stuff. The next in line are the US Distributors. Like it or not, the US distributors bought this drywall and sold it for a profit. They are probably the next ones in line who need to be held responsible. They need to know what they are selling, where it came from, and whether or not it is safe.
I don’t expect the Fed Gov’t to provide a “bailout” on this. I would however like to see the Fed Gov’t deal with the Chinese in such a way (I have no idea how)to make them pay for this. Don’t we have the global size & power anymore to demand this?