PPG Receives Adverse Ruling in Marvin Case

PPG, which is evaluating its options for further appeals, estimates the total judgment, including interest, is between $145 and $150 million pretax, which the company plans to reserve in first quarter 2005.

Marvin, of Warroad, Minn., alleged a wood preservative from PPG failed to prevent rot in its wood windows manufactured during the late 1980s.

The original suit was filed in April 1994. A district judge dismissed the case in 1999, a decision that Marvin appealed. The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals confirmed the dismissal of 12 of 13 claims but allowed Marvin to move forward with a jury trial on a breach-of-warranty claim, which resulted in a judgment against PPG in 2002.

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