Polybutylene or pb was widely used from the late 1970s through the early 90s.
Blue max water pipe lawsuit.
Posted by richc on august 2 2017.
According to the lawsuit shell which designed manufactured marketed and sold pb resin primarily for use for plastic water piping and celanese responsible for the acetal resin for use in the pipes fittings misrepresented to the public at large builders developers government regulators plumbers that polybutylene plumbing systems.
The following pages are excerpts from the consumer protection recovery center that was formed to disperse funds for elgible homeowners and businesses.
A settlement of the lawsuit was reached with du pont only.
It was called cox v.
Shell oil co was filed in tennessee over faulty polybutylene plastic plumbing.
Or blue polybutylene water supply pipe supplying water to the house.
Once again we re dealing with bluemax pipe polybutylene plumbing this time thankfully it is not on our nickel or is due to a flooded basement i notice water bubbling from the water meter pit in our yard yesterday and after butler county came out to look at the meter he knew right away it was the plastic pipe connected to the county water side of.
It was common for installations through foundations walls that would shear off due to weight of grade.
In this lawsuit any homeowner with poly b pipe and acetal fittings were eligible even if there was no leak.
The pb pipe is usually gray and sometimes black plastic.
I ve added a link to the website which surprisingly is still active.
Those repairs are paid from an unusual 950 million settlement of a 1995 lawsuit.
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The plumbing systems included in this class action are made of polybutylene pipe and acetal plastic insert fittings.
It can answer most of the questions you ve posed except for whether your seller ever filed a claim.
The lawsuit deadline for reimbursement is long over so you must pay for all repairs.
Within the next decade builders stopped using the material for pipes because of the potential.
The polybutylene class action lawsuit applied to houses with polybutylene pipe installed between 1978 and 1995.
Replacing polybutylene pipes and dealing with leak repairs must be done by homeowners and businesses alike.
A class action lawsuit against polybutylene manufacturers was settled for 950 million in 1995.
The lawsuit was settled with dupont who made the fittings and not the pipes.
Dunbar ky a very popular type of plastic water piping similar to polybutelene that was recalled due to product defect liability property damage.
Shell oil co where 120 million was provided for affected homeowners.
There was also another lawsuit filed around the same time spencer vs.
The answer is yes there was a class action case involving polybutylene pipes which settled many years ago.
