It's taken years, but a federal judge this week will assess damages against the giant Chinese company that sold sulfurous dry-wall to home builders in the US. The crap sickened thousands of home owners whose attorneys have tenaciously pursued the Chinese company in federal court.
A German company that sold some of the defective drywall through to US builders previously paid $800 million to settle out of the case. Meanwhile, the Chinese tried to abscond. But when a tough federal judge froze the firm's US assets and prevented it from selling stateside, the company slinked back into court. Now it's expected to be required to pay billions to hapless American homeowners who lost in many cases their primary financial asset, while enduring rashes, coughs and many more maladies.
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