New Advocacy Group Looks to Help Chinese Drywall Victims

Posted in Home Insurance

December 22nd, 2009

In October, we reported on a group of homeowners who had been dropped – or threatened – by their insurance companies because they’d submitted claims for faulty Chinese drywall in their homes. Seen as unfair treatment by the victims and many onlookers, a new advocacy group quickly organized to help the homeowners and begin steps toward resolving the issue.

Chinese Drywall Complaint Center

The new organization is called the Chinese Drywall Complaint Center. Currently, the center is looking for homeowners in Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Virginia and Southeast Texas – the states with homes that may be affected by the faulty drywall.

Those homes that may have been affected by the drywall, which has corroded plumbing and made home dwellers ill, were built primarily from 2001 to 2008.

Was CPSC Doing Enough?

The U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) created a multi-agency task force to determine whether the drywall was the cause of the problems the homeowners faced in their homes. To date, more than 2,000 homeowners contacted the CPSC with their complaints of corrosion, as well as health symptoms like persistent cough, bloody and runny noses, headaches, difficulty breathing and more.

However, the Chinese Drywall Complaint Center says the CPSC isn’t moving quickly enough to help the homeowners. So it plans to step in and get the homeowners the help keep them safe as class action lawsuits begin.