Tamko Shingle Product Defect Claims Must be Arbitrated

Tamko Building Products, Inc. succeeded in blocking a group of homeowners from pursuing class action claims in court over allegedly defective roofing shingles.

Tamko’s “shinglewrap” arbitration agreement binds the homeowners, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit said Nov. 2.

The purchase terms, including a mandatory arbitration provision and a class action ban, were displayed in full on every package of shingles, the appeals court said.

Unwrapping and retaining the shingles was an objectively reasonable means of accepting the company’s arbitration offer.

The court also said the homeowners’ grant of authority to their roofers to buy and install ...