Is My Drywall Chinese? - HB Litigation Conferences

the German manufacturer, Knauf, only confirm what homeowners already know: they
have been hit by defective drywall.
Meaningful steps have been taken by Senator Bill Nelson, Congressman Robert
Wexler and others in Congress to prevent this from happening again. And, yet again,
there are calls for the changes in how we allow Chinese imports into our country.
Lawsuits and litigation are beginning. There will be time to hold accountable those
responsible for this disaster in courts of law.
However, pregnant women today are being told by their trusted physicians they
must leave the house to protect the health of their unborn child. There are elderly on
fixed incomes who feel the affects of the toxic gases but who have nowhere to go. There
are families with young children told by their pediatricians that the repeated sinus
infections and respiratory problems are potentially made worse or caused by the toxic
gases.
While the health departments, the EPA, and the science community debate the
long term health affects of this “silent hurricane”, people are at risk of losing their homes.
Most homeowners can not afford to continue paying mortgages for home in which they
can no longer live and yet also pay rent on a home to which they must relocate their
family. The homes with confirmed defective Chinese drywall can not be sold as the
market rightfully demands disclosure of the defective Chinese drywall. Banks can not
meaningfully assess the costs of remediation to lend to a homeowner because there is no
consensus as to what fix is truly a fix; no one is telling the community how to rebuild
safely and effectively to remove forever the toxic affects of the “silent hurricane”. All the
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