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Home Depot Faces Multiple Suits: Allegations of Health Hazards from Grout Sealer

By R. Robin McDonald
August 31, 2007

When Gwinnett County, GA, resident James Flynn bought a spray can of grout sealer from his neighborhood Home Depot in July 2005, he could not have imagined that his purchase would land him in the hospital and cost him the use of a lung. However, Flynn's attorney, Frank Ilardi, said that when his client bought Tile Perfect Stand 'N Seal Spray-On Grout Sealer, its manufacturer had been fielding complaints for more than a month about potentially devastating effects associated with its use.

Flynn is now one of more than 160 people across the country who have brought 31 product liability suits against The Home Depot and five companies tied to the manufacture and distribution of Stand 'N Seal, claiming that use of the product permanently damaged their health. According to Ilardi, Stand 'N Seal is an aerosol chemical spray containing Flexipel ' an ingredient that should never have been produced in aerosol form. Two people have died after exposure to Stand 'N Seal, Ilardi said. Others, like Flynn, were hospitalized and left with permanent lung damage.

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