A lawsuit blames Lumber Liquidators’ Chinese-made laminate flooring for the premature death of a West Virginia woman who died from cancer in 2017, the West Virginia Record reports.
The administrator of the estate of the deceased woman filed the suit and is alleging negligence and breach of warranty, according to the report. In 2015, the deceased, Shelia Lynn Morgan, contacted Lumber Liquidators to return her laminate flooring after a “60 Minutes” report detailed the Chinese-made product’s high levels of formaldehyde. The plaintiff was never reimbursed for the flooring, according to the lawsuit. The suit claims Morgan’s exposure to the formaldehyde in the flooring caused her to develop cancer, which led to her death.
Morgan’s estate administrator is seeking compensatory and punitive damages, attorney fees, costs and pre- and post-judgement costs against Lumber Liquidators, according to the report.
Lumber Liquidators reached a $36 million settlement last year in a class-action lawsuit filed by customers who purchased the Chinese-made laminate flooring between 2009–2015. Earlier this year, the company paid $33 million for misleading investors during the formaldehyde scandal.
