Bryant Furnace Heat Exchanger Lawsuit

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.

Bryant furnace heat exchanger lawsuit.

I have have heard that the settlement would pay for labor and materials to rplace a heat exchanger for furnaces under 20 years old. The lawsuit is about whether secondary heat exchangers in high efficiency gas furnaces made by carrier were defective and failed too soon. High energy efficiency furnaces sold by carrier bryant day night and payne were found to be defective in a class action lawsuit involving approximately 3 million customers in north america. This class action provides labor on top of the parts warranty that is standard.

Millions of homeowners across the u s. The judgment was worth over 300 million dollars based on a combination of cash refunds and the cost of extended warranties given to customers. 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 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.

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. Fyi in 2008 carrier entered into a settlement over deffective heat exchangers for carrier bryant and some other branded furnaces installed after about 1989. 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. 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.

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. Recently we replaced a seriously failed carrier furnace.