Several lawyers along the American Gulf coast have put together class action lawsuits to find relief for the growing number of families whose homes have been ruined by contaminated Chinese drywall. Many of the families are hurricane victims who had recently built new homes or made major repairs to their storm-wrecked houses.

Thousands of the Chinese-manufactured boards were imported into the United States starting in 2004. The toxic boards reportedly emit a sulfur compound that causes a rotten egg odor and corrodes electrical wiring, copper coils and other metals within the walls of recently-built houses.

Some families fear fire from the corroded wires and health problems from long-term exposure to the toxic material. That, according to the Wall Street Journal, is in spite of a Florida Department of Health report that the level of drywall of emissions pose no "immediate health threat."

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