ALLEGEDLY DEFECTIVE
PRODUCTS – RESOURCE LIST

The following products have been the subjects of a settlement agreement under a class action lawsuit:

Louisiana-Pacific (LP) OSB Siding
800 245-2722
Exterior Insulating Finish System
800 350-4730 (EIFS) (Synthetic stucco)
Polybutylene Plumbing Materials
800 876-4698

Masonite Hardboard Siding
800 245-2722
Masonite OmniWood Siding
800 256-6990
Masonite Woodruf Roofing
800 256-6990

The Web site http://www.kinsella.com provides information and links to other Web sites concerning each of these products and more. The site is intended as a national clearinghouse of information on class actions.

The following product is the subject of a pending lawsuit, but as of October 1999, the courts have not certified it as a class action, except in California only:

Weyerhaeuser Hardboard Siding
800 871-3644 (company hotline)
206 682-5600 (plaintiffs' lawyers)

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The following product(s) have been the subject of a recall by the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission:

Cadet electric in-wall heater
800 567-2613

Omega fire sprinklers
800 927-5291

Further information about these and other possibly unsafe products can be obtained from the U. S. Consumer Product Safety Commission 800-638-2772, http://www.cpsc.gov

Information about these products, lawsuits, settlements and recalls is constantly changing. Updated products by the same companies might not have the same problems. Products not on the above lists might later be found to be defective.

Allen V. Hovsepian CRS, GRI
Associate Broker

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