Armin Seifart, a Chevron corporate lawyer, felt marooned after discovering the walls of his newly built Miami home were emitting foul smelling sulfur gas that was ruining electronic appliances and leaving the house unlivable.

“We became refugees. We were suddenly rendered homeless,” he testified Tuesday in his family’s lawsuit against the company that supplies his contractors with Chinese drywall. “It basically went up in smoke. It was a white elephant. We couldn’t live in it. We couldn’t sell it. We couldn’t rent it.”

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