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Litigation

Nov. 8, 2006

At the Head of a Class

FOCUS COLUMN - By David Birka-White - The plumbing inspector lowers himself down into the crawl space under a house and looks at an expanse of raw sewage under the structure.


Focus Column

By David Birka-White

     
      The plumbing inspector lowers himself down into the crawl space under a house and looks at an expanse of raw sewage under the structure. It is a homeowner's nightmare, repeated thousands of times in the past 10 years resulting in $100 million of class action settlements for defective ABS pipe. But this homeowner, and others identified through the l...

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