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LEGAL NOTICE
If you own or owned a high efficiency
gas furnace, you could get benefits
from a class action settlement.
Includes Carrier, Bryant, Payne, and Day & Night
furnaces made and sold since January I, 1989.
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A nationwide settlement has been reached in a class
action lawsuit about whether Carrier Corporation
(“Carrier’*) failed to disclose alleged defects in the
secondary heat exchangers of its high efficiency gas
furnaces. The settlement provides benefits to those who
own or owned a high efficiency gas furnace.
If you're included, you may send in a claim form to
request a payment, or you can exclude yourself from the
settlement, or object to it. The U.S. District Court for the
Western District of Washington authorized this notice, and
will have a hearing to decide whether to approve the
settlement, so that benefits can be issued. Get a detailed
notice at www.FumaceClaims.com.
Who’s included?
The Class includes anyone who currently owns a
Carrier 90+% high efficiency condensing gas furnace made
and sold since January 1. 1989. and former owners
of these furnaces who had a secondary heat exchanger
failure. These furnaces were sold under the brand
names “Carrier.” “Bryant." “Payne.” and “Day & Night.”
A list of the included models is available by calling
1-866-517-2490 or going to www.FumaceClaims.com.
What does the settlement provide?
Carrier will pay eligible Class members who had a
secondary heat exchanger failure up to $270 and offer an
enhanced 20-year warranty on secondary heat exchangers
in their high-efficiency gas furnaces. Carrier will also
provide a technical bulletin to furnace dealers to help
identify furnaces eligible for coverage under the
enhanced warranty. The settlement doesn’t mean that
any law was broken, and Carrier denies it did anything
wrong. Other benefits and more details about the
settlement can be found in a Settlement Agreement which
www.FurnaceClaims.com
Insider
Race and size wars erupt when
plus-sized teen Tracy Turnblad
(Nikki Blonsky) shimmies and
shakes her way onto a popular
Baltimore TV dance show.
The reigning blond bimbette
(Brittany Snow) and her
calculating mom (Michelle Pfeiffer)
strive to crush Tracy's popularity
and her attempts at racially
integrating the show and the city.
AN OFFBEAT LOOK
AT A NEW RELEASE
The Plot
is available at www.FumaceClaims.com.
How DO YOU ASK FOR BENEFITS?
You do not have to do anything to receive the
enhanced warranty. However, to request a payment for a
past secondary heat exchanger failure you must complete
and submit a claim form. You can submit a claim form at
w ww.FurnaceClaims.com. The claim form describes what
you must provide to prove your claim and receive a
payment. Please read the instructions carefully, fill out
the claim form, and submit it online or mail it postmarked
no later than August 1, 2008 to the address on the form.
What are your other rights?
If you don’t want to be legally bound by the
settlement, you must exclude yourself by March 21,2008,
or you won't be able to start a lawsuit against Carrier on
your own about the legal claims in this case. This case
does not affect personal injury, wrongful death, or emo
tional distress claims. If you exclude yourself, you can’t
gel any benefits from the settlement, but you keep your
original warranty rights. If you stay in the settlement,
you may object to it by March 21, 2008. The detailed
notice explains how to exclude yourself or object.
The Court will hold a hearing in this case, known as
Grays Harbor Adventist Christian School v. Carrier Cor
poration, No. CVOS-5437, on April 22, 2008. to consider
whether to approve the settlement, and a request by Class
Counsel for fees, costs, and expenses of up to $9,950,000.
Class Counsel will also ask for a payment of $3,500 to
each Class Representative, who helped the lawyers on
behalf of the whole Class. You or your own lawyer may
ask to appear and speak at the hearing at your own cost,
but you don't have to. For more information, go to the
website shown below.
1-866-517-2490
Our Insider
Patrick Melville tames the
tresses of stars like Halle Berry,
Heidi Klum, Mischa Barton and
Nicole Richie. A former British
boxer, Melville sharpened his
shears at New York's Pipino
Buccheri and Warren-Tricomi
salons. Eariier this month,
he opened the Patrick Melville
Salon at the Sports Club/LA
at Rockefeller Center.
John Travolta, left, and Nikki Blonsky in
Hairspray. Now out on DVD, the film celebrates
'6os dance crazes and lacquered hair.
OVERVIEW “I thought it was great. The
hair was just so over-the-top, coiffed and
hairsprayed. It’s sheer fantasy! The 1960 s
were probably one of the most memorable times in fashion. Women
tried to be perfect. With their hair, nothing could be out of place
... and the bigger, the better.”
► COLORBLIND “I love the scene where Ti-acy [is sent to detention
and] integrates with a bunch of black students. She just starts
dancing with them it’s so cool. There were a lot of racial prob
lems in America at the time, and this generation brought huge
change. I grew up in Manchester, England, which was a depressed
industrial city. There was a lot of ignorance. You were told, ‘Don’t
mix with those people.’ I first met [black] and Hispanic people
because I started boxing at an early age, and there were many in
the sport. I got to know them, and they were loving, great people
Mends who would stand by me, no matter what”
► WEIGHTY ISSUES “Tracy was ridiculed and put down for being fat,
and it’s no different today. It’s sad. We are very visual, and peo
ple judge you on your appearance. Everyone wants to be skinny,
but you have to learn to live within yourself If you’ve got a full
face and big body, there are hair tips that can help. For instance,
you can try more movement to the hair, a little more texture. You
want to keep some softness to the face so you don’t accentuate
the roundness. The bob is the worst thing if you have a really full
face. You don’t want to bring it right to the jaw line and accentu
ate the roundness of your face.”
HELMET HEADS “Everyone in that movie had the same hair. And it
wasn’t hairspray; it was lacquer then, a very hard form of hair
spray. You could probably finish your furniture with it. My mom
used to buy it in the gallon jug. She would put a scarf over her
face, and I would have to spray her hair with this little plastic
squeegee thing because we had no aerosol then. That hair was
like a rock, like liquid shellac.” ca Rebecca Louie
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