Homeowners with Masonite Hardboard Siding installed Jan. 1, 1990, through Jan. 15, 1998, have until January 2008 to file claims. Recent figures indicate more than 250,000 claims have been received.

The number is answered by the Masonite Claims Administration Office, and a recorded message says the settlement covers Masonite Hardboard Siding installed between Jan. 1, 1980, and Jan. 15, 1998.

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 ...

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… ...

Masonite said as many as 3 million homes in the United States have its siding. Attorneys say the cost to repair the damage would be about $1,000 to $10,000 per house.

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 ...

Masonite Corp., South Florida’s dominant supplier of hardboard siding, will pay $10 million to settle a lawsuit brought by a West Palm Beach developer who claimed the siding was defective, both ...

Demolition of 56-year-old defunct Masonite plant comes as battle brews over what will replace it. Like a Tyrannosaurus rex in a sci-fi movie, the excavator's jaws clamped down on a steel beam ...