Lp Siding Lawsuit

The class action lawsuit against louisiana pacific hardboard siding products is over.

Lp siding lawsuit.

Regardless of the maintenance nearly all lp siding installations i look at from this era have failed at least certainly to some degree. I was visited by 3 men representing 3 different companies at a jobsite in east tennessee. The siding had typical swelling at the edges and was clearly delaminating. Jarrett and catawba siding involved in a class action lawsuit.

Rain comes before the rainbow and such has been the case with lp smartside siding. In what was one of the largest class action lawsuits in the history of the siding industry lp paid out more than 129 000 claims but failure didn t sit well with the lp team. The class action was open to anybody with this siding on their homes that was installed prior to 1 1 96 and that siding is damaged or becomes damaged prior to 1 1 2003 and did not opt out during the opt out period. Between 1985 and 1995 800 000 homes were sided with a louisiana pacific lp product called inner seal that sparked one of the largest class action lawsuits in history after the siding began to fail.

The company had initiated the class action lawsuit to speed up the process and according to the judge presiding over the case got the most money to the most people in the quickest amount of time based on my experience. My opinion is and always has been that swelled recalled moisture compromised lp siding should be replaced. The class action is over. Their intent was to sell me the lp smart siding and trim.

Georgia pacific stopped making siding at that plant in 1987 because it did not meet expectations. Lp had to settle a class action lawsuit and resolve homeowners claims. 1 was from lp. 1996 in re louisiana pacific inner seal siding litigation lieff cabraser served as co lead class counsel on behalf of a nationwide class of homeowners with defective exterior siding on their homes.

Over 500 million has been paid out to customers regarding this suit. The settlement for that lawsuit has been paid so if you are reading this you have missed the opportunity to file a claim. The problem with lp s inner seal generally is that it fails where exposed to the weather. They still use osb product but all of the.

During the 1990s lp was the defendant in a major class action lawsuit over its osb siding product known as inner seal manufactured from the early 1990s through 1996. Georgia pacific hard board siding had two products. Plaintiffs asserted claims for breach of warranty fraud negligence and violation of consumer protection statutes. Obviously the focus of their next siding panel would be resistance from moisture.