PVC maker sued for pipe failures

摘要

Nevada, Virginia, Delaware, Tennessee, San Diego, Sacramento, San Jose, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, and 39 other California municipalities and water districts have joined a whistleblower lawsuit seeking millions of dollars in damages from JM Eagle and its former parent company, Formosa Plastics Corp. (USA), forrnsupplying PVC water and sewer pipes that the suit alleges the manufacturer knew were substandard.rnThe whistleblower lawsuit was unsealed in February after the states and other government entities investigated the allegations and elected to intervene in the case, which is filed in federal dis-rntrict court in Los Angeles.