Bryant Furnace Heat Exchanger Lawsuit

Action lawsuit brought against the carrier corporation for allegedly manufacturing defective furnaces.

Bryant furnace heat exchanger lawsuit.

The judgment was worth over 300 million dollars based on a combination of cash refunds and the cost of extended warranties given to customers. The enhancements respond to a recent class action lawsuit claiming premature failure on the secondary heat exchanger found in carrier bryant payne and day night high efficiency condensing gas furnaces. This class action provides labor on top of the parts warranty that is standard. 13 2007 i made mention in this space of a pending class action lawsuit against carrier corp the manufacturer of carrier bryant payne and day night brand 90 percent efficient furnaces.

The products cited in the class action suit include high efficiency condensing furnaces manufactured after january 1 1989 with carrier bryant payne or day night on the nameplate. The lawsuit claims that the polypropylene laminated steel ppl used in secondary heat exchangers in the furnace degrades and disintegrates due to the high temperatures in the furnace. Recently we replaced a seriously failed carrier furnace. Bryant furnace class action lawsuit.

And canada may soon benefit from the settlement of a class action lawsuit brought against the carrier corporation for allegedly 1989 with carrier bryant payne or day night on the nameplate and two class action complaints filed in. Many of these units have developed serious operational issues or have failed completely. The lawsuit is about whether secondary heat exchangers in high efficiency gas furnaces made by carrier were defective and failed too soon. I have have heard that the settlement would pay for labor and materials to rplace a heat exchanger for furnaces under 20 years old.

It s my understanding that the carrier bryant class action law suit settlement covers all 90 furnaces that use the propylene coating in the secondary hx including current production units. This was one of many carrier bryant and payne furnaces we have been seeing recently installed prior to 2010 with a problematic secondary heat exchanger.