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Last Call on Certainteed Shingle Settlement – Some may still submit Claim

September 30th, 2011. By AbiK

If you were affected by the CertainTeed Organic Shingle Class Action, listen up.

We’ve gotten a very high number of complaints about CertainTeed shingles—in fact, we continue to get them. But if you purchased, installed—or even took on ownership of a home with defective CertainTeed Organic Shingles—and the shingles failed prematurely or did not perform in accordance with reasonable expectations, you may still be able to submit a claim form over at the CertainTeed Organic Shingle Class Action Settlement website. (Please note: do not submit a complaint here at LawyersandSettlements.com.)

To be sure, figuring out what type of shingles you have, when they were installed, how long the shingle warranty is, and how that all figures into if and when you need to submit a claim form by is no easy task. But the claims administrator has provided a chart showing the various warranty lengths for each of the CertainTeed Organic Shingle types (Custom Lok 25, Custom Saf-T-Lok/Saf-T-Lok, Custom Sealdon, Custom Sealdon 30, Hallmark Shangle, Hearthstead, Horizon, Shangle, Independence Shangle, Master Slab, Sealdon 20, Sealdon 25, Solid Slab).

Once you review the chart showing you what your warranty length is for your shingles, you can then determine when you either needed to submit a claim by (some claim submission dates have already passed) or if you still may be able to file a claim.

IMPORTANT: If you are not covered by the warranty or if you settled your warranty claim since August 1, 2006, your claim form must be postmarked or otherwise received by CertainTeed within 12 months after the effective settlement date of October 2, 2010.

If this applies to YOU—it’s last call for making a claim in the CertainTeed Organic Shingle Settlement—your claim form needs to be postmarked by October 2, 2011 (Sunday). So get moving!

Visit the CertainTeed Organic Shingle Class Action Settlement website for more info.

Tags: Certainteed, CertainTeed Class Action, CertainTeed Organic Shingles, CertainTeed Settlement, Roof Shingles
Posted in Class Action, Defective Products, Emerging Issues, Settlement | 88002 Comments »2011-09-30+19%3A36%3A59AbiK

What’s Got You Annoyed? Take a Look…

June 28th, 2010. By AbiK

I have this little Monday morning ritual where I take a look at all the comments and claims that come in to LawyersAndSettlements.com over the weekend. Seems that’s when a lot of folks allow themselves a moment or two to think about what’s really pissing them off. Things like defective products, denied insurance claims, whatever. But there are always a few topics that folks write in about that seem to hit a common nerve (or, shall I say, that proverbial last nerve?).

So just in case you were wondering, here are some things that have you annoyed today…

GM Saturn transmissions
Hyundai Tiburon clutch issues
Overtime Pay (or the lack thereof)
Trex Decks–things like mold growth and surface “flaking”
Bank of America
BP Oil Spill
CertainTeed roof shingles
Citizens Bank
PRA LLC (debt collection)
Amiodarone (heart medicine)

Ok folks—I know I must be missing some here—so feel free to add to the list. Oh, and for the record, health insurance companies are what’s pissing me off today. Try this one on for size: I just received a Statement of Benefits that’s indicates my “Group” is an employer I haven’t worked for in five years—and yes, my medical provider had the correct insurance plan information. So what do you think happened to the claim? DENIED.

Tags: Amiodarone, Bank of America, BP Oil Spill, Certainteed, Citizens Bank, Overtime Pay, PRA LLC, Saturn, Tiburon, Trex Decks
Posted in Complaints/Comments | 4195No Comments »2010-06-28+20%3A19%3A17AbiK

CertainTeed Organic Shingle Settlement has Green Light

June 16th, 2010. By AbiK

Know what gets a lot of traffic at LawyersAndSettlements.com? Anything CertainTeed. CertainTeed lawsuits. CertainTeed settlements. CertainTeed-related comments about the weather. You name it, folks love clicking a CertainTeed link. So, in honor of all of you who’ve clicked away, here’s a CertainTeed story that might pay off for you: the CertainTeed Organic Shingle Settlement was approved at a court hearing last week.

[Little disclosure: as with the Lawn Mower settlement, LawyersAndSettlements.com has absolutely nothing to do with this—we're not affiliated or connected in any way to the Settlement, not in bed with the law firms involved, not getting any cut of this...we're just reporting it...]

So this Settlement is the result of a defective product lawsuit claiming that CertainTeed Organic Shingles that were manufactured between July 1, 1987 and December 31, 2005 were defective and failed to perform as promised when installed on homes and/or buildings in the US and Canada.

Now, don’t get all giddy too quickly. I’m telling you upfront, this Settlement—if you’re a part of it—will require a bit of homework on your part. So here we go…

The settlement applies to these folks only (aka, the “Class Members” —and yes, you need to be a member of this little club to receive any settlement monies) AND you also need to meet certain eligibility requirements once you pass the “test” to be considered a Class Member. So first, let’s look at who qualifies as a Class Member…

You are a CLASS MEMBER of the CertainTeed Organic Shingle Class Action Settlement if you:

1. Owned a home or other building in the US or Canada as of December 15, 2009 on which CertainTeed Organic Shingles were or had been installed;

2. Owned such a home or building prior to December 15, 2009 but sold or Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Certainteed, CertainTeed Organic Shingles
Posted in Class Action, Defective Products, Emerging Issues, Settlement | 400816 Comments »2010-06-16+16%3A12%3A45AbiK

Week Adjourned: 2.12.10

February 12th, 2010. By LucyC

Top Class Actions

Community Fights Cancer Cluster. What would you do if your neighborhood got the tag line ‘cancer cluster’? Well, several families living in West Palm Beach have filed a potential class action lawsuit against Pratt & Whitney over that very issue. Unfortunately, as the term denotes, the ramifications are serious and affect more than just property values—which is what the class action is about. As many as 10,000 homeowners who live near the Pratt & Whitney plant in The Acreage, Florida could be affected.

According to the complaint, on February 1, 2010 the Palm Beach County Health department confirmed that The Acreage has a cancer cluster—a higher than normal rate of brain tumors among children in The Acreage area, which is located very near the Pratt & Whitney plant.

The source of the illness and the resulting reduction in property values is—you guessed it—toxic chemicals—no surprise there. And it’s quite a list of poisons including oil, sodium cyanide, thorium dispersed nickel, construction debris, unknown solid waste (keyword: unknown), solvents, solvent sludges, asbestos, fuel, paints, pesticide and herbicide residue, benzontrite, mercury, and commercial laboratory chemicals.

Oh—let’s not forget the 1,4-dioxane, also among the contaminants on site, which the US Department of Health Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Cancer Cluster, Certainteed, Florida, The Acreage
Posted in Week Adjourned | 27162 Comments »Week+Adjourned%3A+2.12.102010-02-12+22%3A58%3A23LucyC