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Chinese Drywall Maker To Pay Millions In Claims

by Eileen Fleming, WWNO-FM
December 16, 2011

Thousands of Gulf Coast homeowners have repeatedly said their new homes were making them sick. In a federal courtroom in New Orleans Thursday, a Chinese drywall manufacturer agreed to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to resolve court claims by property owners who said the product corroded pipes and wires and otherwise wrecked their homes.

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