Lp Siding Lawsuit

The settlement for that lawsuit has been paid so if you are reading this you have missed the opportunity to file a claim.

Lp siding lawsuit.

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. This involved jarrett siding that was manufactured at the jarratt va plant between 1979 and 1987 only. They still use osb product but all of the. The current success of lp smartside engineered wood siding options began with a lawsuit against a prior exterior wood siding product known as louisiana pacific inner seal siding.

Lp s inner seal siding was the subject of a class action lawsuit. Georgia pacific stopped making siding at that plant in 1987 because it did not meet expectations. 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. 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.

Lp had to settle a class action lawsuit and resolve homeowners claims. Over 500 million has been paid out to customers regarding this suit. Regardless of the maintenance nearly all lp siding installations i look at from this era have failed at least certainly to some degree. The class action lawsuit against louisiana pacific hardboard siding products is over.

The siding had typical swelling at the edges and was clearly delaminating. 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. 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. I was visited by 3 men representing 3 different companies at a jobsite in east tennessee.

The class action is over. Obviously the focus of their next siding panel would be resistance from moisture. Georgia pacific hard board siding had two products. Jarrett and catawba siding involved in a class action lawsuit.

1 was from lp. Plaintiffs asserted claims for breach of warranty fraud negligence and violation of consumer protection statutes. Their intent was to sell me the lp smart siding and trim. The problem with lp s inner seal generally is that it fails where exposed to the weather.