KOROSSY v. SUNRISE HOMES, INC.

Nos. 94-CA-473 through 94-CA-502.

653 So.2d 1215 (1995)

Ravel Rubi, Wife of/and John KOROSSY, v. SUNRISE HOMES, INC., Coast Quality Construction Corp. and ABC Corp., Manufacturer of Siding, Michael A. SIMPSON and Claudia Simpson, v. SUNRISE HOMES, INC., Coast Quality Construction Company, George E. BRENNER, Jr. and Ronald A. Blanco, v. SUNRISE HOMES, INC., Coast Quality Construction Company, Masonite Corp. and Standard Mortgage Corp., Kimberly Burge Gabert, Wife of/and Thomas James GABERT, v. SUNRISE HOMES, INC. and Homebuilders Warranty Corp., II, Maria Gifford, Wife of/and Milton L. FOLEY, v. SUNRISE HOMES, INC., Coast Quality Construction Corp., Masonite Corp. and Standard Mortgage Corp. Michael MUIR and Darlene Muir, v. SUNRISE HOMES, INC. and Coast Quality Construction Corporation, Lanny BOWERS, v. SUNRISE HOMES, INC. and Coast Quality Construction Corp., Marie Trauth, Wife of/and Patrick Lynn, SHANNON, v. SUNRISE HOMES, INC. and Coast Quality Construction Corp., Jamie Stimpson, Wife of/and Raymond BILNOSKI, v. SUNRISE HOMES, INC., Coast Quality Construction Corp., Howard Pile Driving, Inc. and ABC Insurance Company, Karen Craig Wife of/and Ray RODRIGUEZ, v. SUNRISE HOMES, INC. and Coast Quality Construction Corp., Linda K. WHITTAKER, v. SUNRISE HOMES, INC. and Coast Quality Construction Company, Paula Citrano, Wife of/and Ronald K. LANDIS, v. SUNRISE HOMES, INC. and Coast Quality Construction Corp., Danette Koetitz, Wife of/and Steven GUCCIONE, v. SUNRISE HOMES, INC. and Coast Quality Construction Corp., Toufic NASSIF, v. SUNRISE HOMES, INC. and Coast Quality Construction Corp. and Shirley Nassif, Debra Mull, Wife of/and Morris A. NAQUIN, Jr., v. SUNRISE HOMES, INC. and Coast Quality Construction Corp. and Howard Pile Driving Corp., Judy MANNINO, Wife of/and Wade R. BREAUX, v. COAST QUALITY CONSTRUCTION CORP., Darnel Thiel Monteverde, Wife of/and Brian Louis MONTEVERDE, v. SUNRISE HOMES, INC., Maria G. Kattengell, Wife of/and Gustavo M. KATTENGELL, Jr., Individually and on Behalf of their Minor Children Gustavo M. Kattengell, III and Jacquelyn M. Kattengell, v. SUNRISE HOMES, INC., Coast Quality Construction Corp., Home Buyers Warranty Corp., Standard Mortgage Corp., Federal Housing Authority, Department of Housing Urban Development, Martin H. RADOSTA, Jr., v. SUNRISE HOMES, INC., Coast Quality Construction Corp., J.J. Krebs & Sons, Inc. and Howard Pile Driving Corp., Gerald G. HEINEMANN v. SUNRISE HOMES, INC., Coast Quality Construction Corp., J.J. Krebs & Sons, Inc. and Howard Pile Driving Corp., Faye Rousseau, Wife of/and Norman Joseph NAQUIN, v. SUNRISE HOMES, INC., Suzanne Sliman, Wife of/and Raymond Charles SCHAFFER, v. SUNRISE HOMES, INC., Coast Quality Construction Corp., J.J. Krebs & Sons, Inc. and Home Buyers Warranty Corp. #2, Debra Thokey SMITH, v. SUNRISE HOMES, INC., Coast Quality Construction Corp., J.J. Krebs & Sons, Inc. and Howard Pile Driving Corp., Alida Simmons BLUNT, v. SUNRISE HOMES, INC., Jose and Marina BERNARDO, v. SUNRISE HOMES, INC. and Coast Quality Construction Corp., David and Yolanda JONES, v. SUNRISE HOMES, INC. and Coast Quality Construction Corp., Dehart J. BOONE, Jr., v. SUNRISE HOMES, INC. and Coast Quality Construction Corp., Floyd J. MAHLER, v. SUNRISE HOMES, INC. and Coast Quality Construction Corp., Ileana Boudet, Wife of/and Richard CAMPOS, v. SUNRISE HOMES, INC., Karen McKee, Wife of/and Curtis K. KILPATRICK, v. SUNRISE HOMES, INC., Coast Quality Construction Corporation and J.J. Krebs & Sons, Inc.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied May 17, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John A. Stewart, Jr., J. Ashley Inabnet, New Orleans, for defendants/appellants, Valley Forge Ins. Co. & Continental Cas. Co.

Richard S. Vale, Jeffery W. McDonald, Metairie, for defendant/appellant, Wausau Ins. Companies.

David C. Loeb, Daniel E. Zelenka, II, Jack E. Morris, Metairie, for plaintiffs/appellees-appellants, Sunrise Homes, Inc. & Coast Quality Constr. Corp.

Sally I. Gaden, New Orleans, for defendants/appellants, Louisiana Ins. Guar. Ass'n, as Statutory Obligor for Mission Nat. Ins. Co.

William A. Porteous, III, New Orleans, for defendant/appellant, U.S. Fidelity and Guar. Co.

P. Albert Bienvenu, Jr., Gregory J. Mc-Donald, New Orleans, for defendant/appellant, Scottsdale Ins. Co.

Before DUFRESNE, WICKER and GOTHARD, JJ.


WICKER, Judge.

Before us are 30 related lawsuits which were consolidated for purposes of this appeal. The plaintiffs are owners of homes in the Woodmere and Woodmere South Subdivisions in Harvey, Louisiana, whose homes were damaged by excessive differential settlement of the foundations. They sued the subdivision developer (Coast Quality Construction Corporation) and the marketer (Sunrise Homes, Inc.) in redhibition, alleging

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