A Mobile County circuit judge has granted class-action status to a lawsuit that seeks billions of dollars in damages from Masonite Corp., alleging the company’s hardwood siding is inherently defective ...

The federal government, saying Masonite siding can swell, buckle and rot in as little as three years, has moved to stop the product from being used on new developments that want federal ...

Flung by Hurricane Andrew into a no-holds-barred examination of the home building industry, South Florida is starting to look beyond builders — to the products they use to do the job. Masonite Corp., ...

I need a claim form to fill out on this Masonite siding and to know what else I need to do (like pictures, forms, documentation, etc.). I just bought my house, and it has this siding. -- M.K., ...

Q. When I bought my home, my home inspector said nothing about the exterior siding. Months later, a contractor pointed out that the siding boards have swelled, buckled and disintegrated in many places ...

I have heard there is a deadline approaching for participating in the "Masonite Hardboard Siding settlement." What can you tell us about this suit and settlement? -- R.P., Tulsa. The deadline is Jan.

The builder’s 1-year warranty on their new houses had expired before Nancy Clawson or Debbie Colbert noticed that anything was wrong. But now, the wood around some of their windows is rotting.

Like a Tyrannosaurus rex in a sci-fi movie, the excavator’s jaws clamped down on a steel beam, twisting and tearing it before tossing it onto a scrap heap that will soon hold the final remains of ...

What to do with the downtown square? Santa Rosa’s struggle seems quaint compared with the land-use clash that’s splintering and inciting Ukiah. The battleground is the former Masonite manufacturing ...

John M. Coates, 86, was the former president and chairman of Masonite Corp., a Chicago-based paneling and exterior siding company. A Palatine resident, Mr. Coates died of heart failure Wednesday in ...

The home on South Shaffer Street in Old Towne Orange doesn’t exactly fit the tidy historic neighborhood aesthetic. Its white paint is stained with soot. The clapboard siding has been scarred by nails ...