Florida Homeowners' Lawsuit Alleges Defective Chinese Drywall
Southeast News • March 4, 2009
A group of Florida homeowners sued German drywall maker Knauf Gips KG, its Chinese plasterboard units and several U.S. homebuilders on Monday, alleging contaminated drywall is sickening U.S. ...
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Subject: Realistic - Chemistry 101 & Product Liability Insurance
Posted On: March 5, 2009, 4:40 pm CST
Posted By: Bob
Comment:
Formaldahyde is not so good for you, but it is something to blame on Bush even though did not build the trailers. Watch CNN and MSNBC for the latest blather.
Sulfur, which yields sulfur dioxide and sulfur trioxide which corrode copper is even worse. Formaldehyde is tolerable in the lower concentrations in some of the temporary trailers (which were replaced at no cost to the flood victims) than the oxides of sulfur which are the basis for "acid rain" that was a big topic of discussion years back.
Sulfur trioxide burns your lungs out (sulfuric acid) quickly and damages copper wire, possibly causing fires. (This would be covered by insurance, the subject of this site.) "Realist" was merely noting that the central government of the origin of the drywall has no qualms about quality. Note the recent melamine infested products, lead painted toys, etc. Note also that the drywall lawsuits are directed at the Germans, not the Chinese, for obvious reasons. You will not see U.S. lawyers in China, perhaps standing in front of tanks as the students did a few years back (recall the T-Square event).
I suggest being realistic, unless you have photos of US lawyers standing in front of Chinese tanks. I said standing, not lying (that means horizontal, not mis-speaking) in front of Chinese tanks. Our present administration will tell the Chinese to come over and replace all of the defective drywall and they will do it much faster than the "formaldahyde hotels" were dumped. There are supposedly 60,000 homes affected, how many defective trailers were there and what was the relative value of both. Was there any drywall product liability insurance? I think that is what the lawyers are going after, German insurance companies. Politics or Realistic? We report, you decide.
Subject: Realistic - Chemistry 101 & Product Liability Insurance
Sulfur, which yields sulfur dioxide and sulfur trioxide which corrode copper is even worse. Formaldehyde is tolerable in the lower concentrations in some of the temporary trailers (which were replaced at no cost to the flood victims) than the oxides of sulfur which are the basis for "acid rain" that was a big topic of discussion years back.
Sulfur trioxide burns your lungs out (sulfuric acid) quickly and damages copper wire, possibly causing fires. (This would be covered by insurance, the subject of this site.) "Realist" was merely noting that the central government of the origin of the drywall has no qualms about quality. Note the recent melamine infested products, lead painted toys, etc. Note also that the drywall lawsuits are directed at the Germans, not the Chinese, for obvious reasons. You will not see U.S. lawyers in China, perhaps standing in front of tanks as the students did a few years back (recall the T-Square event).
I suggest being realistic, unless you have photos of US lawyers standing in front of Chinese tanks. I said standing, not lying (that means horizontal, not mis-speaking) in front of Chinese tanks. Our present administration will tell the Chinese to come over and replace all of the defective drywall and they will do it much faster than the "formaldahyde hotels" were dumped. There are supposedly 60,000 homes affected, how many defective trailers were there and what was the relative value of both. Was there any drywall product liability insurance? I think that is what the lawyers are going after, German insurance companies. Politics or Realistic? We report, you decide.