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As First Drywall Trial Concludes, Media Takes Notice
Business Weekly: “Chinese Drywall Maker Should Pay for Home Damage, Lawyer Argues”
Knauf Plasterboard Tianjin Co., a Chinese drywall manufacturer, should pay to restore a Louisiana house to its original condition, before corrosive gases from the product “shattered the dreams” of the family that lived in it, their lawyer said.
“Let’s just give them the house that they had, that they built until they installed the defective Chinese dry wall,” Chris Seeger, the lawyer for Tatum and Charlene Hernandez, said today in a closing statement at the end of a weeklong trial in U.S. District Court in New Orleans.
Seeger asked U.S. District Judge Eldon Fallon, who will determine the case without a jury, to approve a $200,000 remediation plan for the home.
Sarasota Herald Tribune: “Drywall repair estimates for one house vary by $142,000″
But during a bruising cross-examination, the details of Carubba [the expert hired by KPT]’s own methods — and even his truthfulness — were called into question by Chris Seeger, one of the lead plaintiffs’ attorneys.
Sarasota Herald Tribune: Louisiana man testifies about drywall in his “dream house”
All the family wants, he said, is their house fixed.
“We just want to drive up at home like we used to, and say we’re home, this is our safe place,” he said.
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