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- U.S. Rep. Rob Wittman, R-Westmoreland, introduced a bill Thursday that extends tax deductions and credits to owners of homes made with defective drywall imported from China. The Toxic Drywall Homeowner Relief Act would be available to taxpayers for ...
- The guidance to builders nationwide comes as the national consolidated litigation over problem drywall in U.S. District Court in New Orleans proceeds swiftly toward figuring out how to repair homes. Federal efforts to find effective ways to fix homes ...
- NEW ORLEANS — Congressional members are asking the top U.S. fire official to declare defective Chinese drywall a fire hazard. In letters to U.S. Fire Administrator Kelvin Cochran, congressional members from Florida, Virginia and Louisiana said ...
- ... Alyse’s parents house are about to move into a new home at the end of the month after leaving their foreclosed Mercedes Home in Vero Lake Estates that was built using Chinese Drywall. “It’s been very challenging and it’s definitely made ...
- Federal emergency officials have rejected Florida’s request for aid for the victims of defective Chinese drywall . According to HeraldTribune.com, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have determined that the Chinese drywall crisis ...
- The Federal Emergency Management Agency will not be providing assistance to those whose homes were built using Chinese drywall. Earlier this month, the interim director of the state’s Division of Emergency Management wrote to FEMA requesting ...
- MANATEE, Fla. -- The Federal Emergency Management Agency has rejected Florida's request for help in assessing damage caused by corrosive Chinese drywall. A regional FEMA director said in a reply letter that the state's request doesn't meet the ...
- In a letter last week to Florida 's interim emergency management director, David Halstead, FEMA's Major Phillip May declined Halstead's request to conduct a preliminary damage assessment of Chinese drywall in Florida. Halstead also had asked FEMA for ...
- The state of Florida will not be getting any help from the Federal Emergency Management Agency or FEMA for damages caused by corrosive Chinese drywall. Chinese drywall was blamed for destroying Brian Eisenberg's Boynton Beach home. His family moved ...
- TAMPA - The Hillsborough County Commission wants Gov. Charlie Crist keep pushing the federal government to provide relief for homeowners affected by Chinese drywall. Today, the board passed a resolution urging Gov. Charlie Crist to appeal the Federal ...
- Homeowners, who have used this solution to permanently solve their Chinese drywall problem, opened their homes and welcomed neighbors, builders, real estate agents, and many others at an open house and technology demonstration held on Wednesday ...
- The federal government says it finds a "strong association" between problematic imported Chinese drywall and corrosion of pipes and wires. (AP) NEW ORLEANS -- A federal judge on Monday began considering how a Louisiana home tainted by sulfur-emitting ...
- That home in Mandeville, La., owned by Tatum and Charlene Hernandez, is being used as the first contested "bellwether" trial in the massive combined drywall litigation being overseen by U.S. District Court Judge Eldon E. Fallon. Fallon has moved ...
- A federal judge on Monday began considering how a Louisiana home tainted by sulfur-emitting Chinese drywall should be fixed, with plaintiffs calling for a complete overhaul of a home and a Chinese wallboard company arguing that removing the drywall ...
- The first contested trial in the product-liability saga began today in a New Orleans federal courtroom, an early test case that homeowners, homebuilders, insurance companies, manufacturers and lawyers are closely watching because of its potential ...
- NEW ORLEANS: A federal judge on Monday began considering how a Louisiana home tainted by sulfur-emitting Chinese drywall should be fixed, with plaintiffs calling for a complete overhaul of a home and a Chinese wallboard company arguing that removing ...
- In the complex, ongoing mess created by defective, sulfur gas-emitting drywall, U.S. District Judge Eldon E. Fallon is regarded by many homeowners as the best hope for providing solutions. The 71-year-old Louisiana judge is presiding over federal ...
- March 15 (Bloomberg) -- Knauf Plasterboard Tianjin Co. , a Chinese drywall maker, ruined a young family’s new home with its defective product, a plaintiff’s attorney told a judge in New Orleans. “Their dream of homeownership has really turned ...
- Cost to build a home in Parkland with Chinese drywall: $1.7 million. Cost to fix the problem: $220,000. That was the sobering message delivered to a group of builders who gathered Monday at Chris and Amy Davy’s home for a demonstration on approved ...
- Plaintiffs in what could be a precedent-setting court battle over the damage done by Chinese drywall told a judge Monday that a Louisiana home tainted by the sulfur-emitting substance would need a complete overhaul. However, the defendant, a Chinese ...
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