Zurn PEX fittings in home

[Blaine Wiley]

Originally Posted by jfunderburk

Because someone files suit against a company, we start calling the existance of the product in a home a defect (or potential defect)? I prefer to wait for a settlement or verdict before I start making an issue of it. To do otherwise seems unfair to the company.

I make my clients aware that there is a class action suit in progress, and recommend that they research the suit and it's particulars to their satisfaction.

I would hate to be on the stand two years from now because the Zurn fittings failed in a house I inspected after I became aware of the suit with the client's lawyer asking me "why did you withhold information from the client that a class action suit was in progress"

Part of our job is the dissemination of information, especially information that we are aware of that the general public isn't.

[Joe Funderburk, CMI]

Originally Posted by rmaday

I think it would be unfair to call a defect if it were one person suing the company (ie your neighbor suing ACME company for some alleged problem). However, in a class-action there are many alleged occurrences of the same problem.

Can someone, anyone, tell me how many folks have joined this suit? I wasn't able to determine anything from lawyers link given above. Is there any more information available except the lawyers link?

[Jeffrey R. Pope]

I just got off the phone with a representative from the law firm handling this case. While they did not give numbers, they did say that this problem has been occurring in several different states.

They are currently in the discovery process and there is no hearing date set. As additional information becomes available, I'm told, the site will be updated.

[Joe Funderburk, CMI]

Thanks Jeff for trying to get some further information.

I have Zurn fittings in my home and don't have a problem. Someone tell me how you determine who made a plumbing fitting? I'm holding a 1/2" Zurn 90 degree elbow in my hand right now and the name "Zurn" is nowhere to be found. I'm sure it's coded somehow, but when I do an inspection, I don't put my face inches from a fitting to try to determine who made it.

I guess I stand alone in not making an issue of it until Dewey, Cheatum, & Howe, LLC wins a settlement or judgement.