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Last Call on Certainteed Shingle Settlement – Some may still submit Claim

September 30th, 2011. By AbiK

If you were affected by the CertainTeed Organic Shingle Class Action, listen up.

We’ve gotten a very high number of complaints about CertainTeed shingles—in fact, we continue to get them. But if you purchased, installed—or even took on ownership of a home with defective CertainTeed Organic Shingles—and the shingles failed prematurely or did not perform in accordance with reasonable expectations, you may still be able to submit a claim form over at the CertainTeed Organic Shingle Class Action Settlement website. (Please note: do not submit a complaint here at LawyersandSettlements.com.)

To be sure, figuring out what type of shingles you have, when they were installed, how long the shingle warranty is, and how that all figures into if and when you need to submit a claim form by is no easy task. But the claims administrator has provided a chart showing the various warranty lengths for each of the CertainTeed Organic Shingle types (Custom Lok 25, Custom Saf-T-Lok/Saf-T-Lok, Custom Sealdon, Custom Sealdon 30, Hallmark Shangle, Hearthstead, Horizon, Shangle, Independence Shangle, Master Slab, Sealdon 20, Sealdon 25, Solid Slab).

Once you review the chart showing you what your warranty length is for your shingles, you can then determine when you either needed to submit a claim by (some claim submission dates have already passed) or if you still may be able to file a claim.

IMPORTANT: If you are not covered by the warranty or if you settled your warranty claim since August 1, 2006, your claim form must be postmarked or otherwise received by CertainTeed within 12 months after the effective settlement date of October 2, 2010.

If this applies to YOU—it’s last call for making a claim in the CertainTeed Organic Shingle Settlement—your claim form needs to be postmarked by October 2, 2011 (Sunday). So get moving!

Visit the CertainTeed Organic Shingle Class Action Settlement website for more info.

Tags: Certainteed, CertainTeed Class Action, CertainTeed Organic Shingles, CertainTeed Settlement, Roof Shingles
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CertainTeed Organic Shingle Settlement has Green Light

June 16th, 2010. By AbiK

Know what gets a lot of traffic at LawyersAndSettlements.com? Anything CertainTeed. CertainTeed lawsuits. CertainTeed settlements. CertainTeed-related comments about the weather. You name it, folks love clicking a CertainTeed link. So, in honor of all of you who’ve clicked away, here’s a CertainTeed story that might pay off for you: the CertainTeed Organic Shingle Settlement was approved at a court hearing last week.

[Little disclosure: as with the Lawn Mower settlement, LawyersAndSettlements.com has absolutely nothing to do with this—we’re not affiliated or connected in any way to the Settlement, not in bed with the law firms involved, not getting any cut of this…we’re just reporting it…]

So this Settlement is the result of a defective product lawsuit claiming that CertainTeed Organic Shingles that were manufactured between July 1, 1987 and December 31, 2005 were defective and failed to perform as promised when installed on homes and/or buildings in the US and Canada.

Now, don’t get all giddy too quickly. I’m telling you upfront, this Settlement—if you’re a part of it—will require a bit of homework on your part. So here we go…

The settlement applies to these folks only (aka, the “Class Members” —and yes, you need to be a member of this little club to receive any settlement monies) AND you also need to meet certain eligibility requirements once you pass the “test” to be considered a Class Member. So first, let’s look at who qualifies as a Class Member…

You are a CLASS MEMBER of the CertainTeed Organic Shingle Class Action Settlement if you:

1. Owned a home or other building in the US or Canada as of December 15, 2009 on which CertainTeed Organic Shingles were or had been installed;

OR

2. Owned such a home or building prior to December 15, 2009 but sold or Read the rest of this entry »

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