Q: Shortly after it was built, we noticed a slightly lifted-looking horizontal line (shingles not flat as the others) on the upper-left area of the roof when looking at the front of the house. The ...

Maryland’s highest court ruled yesterday that homeowners cannot sue the makers of defective fire-resistant plywood — used in 30,000 townhouses in Maryland — because Maryland’s consumer laws offer no ...

A fire-retardant plywood that has become a standard building material in town house developments in the last decade has now been found to decompose after only a few years, leaving homeowners and ...

A multibillion-dollar potential class-action claim against the major manufacturers and distributors of allegedly defective fire-retardant roofing plywood has been dismissed by a U.S. District Court ...