Louisville Ladder Recall: Third Lawsuit Public, Reply Due Oct 27, 2026
By Settlement Insight Data Desk · Reviewed by Leonard GoldbergPublished
Louisville Ladder Recall: The Third Lawsuit’s Buyer Says He Paid About $400 in 2026, Used the Ladder Weekly and Was Never Hurt — the Kind of Owner the Company Says Has No Case. Its Kentucky Reply Window Ends October 27; There Is Still No Money.
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The short answer: still no money, but the third lawsuit is now readable
As of October 21, 2026, nobody is being paid over the louisville ladder recall. Owners of the 1,770,000 recalled attic stairway ladders can get what the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced on August 6, 2026 under recall number 26-661: a free repair kit with “two replacement ¼” spreader bolts, washers, and lock nuts with installation instructions.” The remedy CPSC lists is simply “Repair.” There is no refund, no settlement fund and no claim form.
What has changed since our October 15 report on the three lawsuits is that the third complaint, Pedigo v. Louisville Ladder, Inc., is now public, and it describes the kind of buyer the company says has no case. The plaintiff bought one of the listed models in early 2026, paid about $400, used it roughly weekly and, in the complaint’s own words, “has not suffered a physical injury to date.” Louisville Ladder entered the New York case on October 16, 2026, filing a notice of appearance and a corporate disclosure statement. In Kentucky, where the company’s motion to dismiss is pending, the court’s local rule lets it file a reply within 14 days of the plaintiffs’ October 13 response — by our count, by October 27, 2026. No judge has ruled on anything.
What the Pedigo complaint says: a $400 ladder, weekly use, no injury
Pedigo v. Louisville Ladder, Inc., No. 2:26-cv-05873, was filed on September 22, 2026 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York and assigned to Magistrate Judge Steven I. Locke. The 20-page complaint, filed by Sultzer & Lipari, PLLC, says the plaintiff, a Suffolk County resident, bought a Louisville attic stairway ladder with gas struts, model AH2540MG-R5, “in or around February or March 2026” at a Home Depot in Commack, New York, and “paid approximately $400.” That model appears on Home Depot’s recall poster as a 25.5 by 54 inch insulated aluminum attic ladder rated for 375 lbs.
The complaint alleges that “Since purchasing it, he has used the Product on a roughly weekly basis,” that he learned of the recall “through social media,” and that the ladder “carries the same latent risk of bolt failure and fall hazard” even though he has not been hurt. Its central charge against the recall echoes the first two cases: the recall “has been woefully ineffective and insufficient to make consumers whole,” and is “purposely designed to minimize Defendant’s financial liability, as it shifts the burden of labor and repair onto the consumer and fails to offer a refund.” It also argues that “The August 2026 recall acts as an admission by Defendant that the Products do not conform to the express warranties made on the labels.” These are allegations; Louisville Ladder has not answered them in this case, and no court has found them true.
Pedigo proposes two groups: a nationwide class of “All persons within the United States who purchased Defendant’s affected Products,” and a New York subclass. It pleads seven claims — New York General Business Law § 349 and § 350, negligent misrepresentation, negligence, unjust enrichment, breach of express warranty and breach of the implied warranty of merchantability — and repeats the allegation, also made in Kentucky, that the ladders were advertised with an ANSI “Type IAA” rating, “meaning they were rated for a 375-pound load.” The complaint says more than $5,000,000 is in controversy and estimates “hundreds of thousands of consumers” in the class.
Do I get money from the louisville ladder recall?
Not as of October 21, 2026. A recall is a safety remedy, not compensation. Money could only follow if one of the three proposed class actions survives the company’s challenges, is certified or settles, and a judge approves a payout. None of that has happened, and there is no amount, deadline or form to file.
The Pedigo complaint shows what New York buyers are asking for, not what they will get. For the New York subclass it seeks actual damages and “treble damages up to $1,000 under GBL § 349(h),” and “actual damages or statutory damages of $500 per violation under GBL § 350-e(3), whichever is greater,” plus “statutory, compensatory, incidental, consequential, and punitive damages and restitution to the extent permitted by law.” The ladders sold for between $170 and $600, according to CPSC. The two other cases are Braun v. Louisville Ladder Inc., No. 3:26-cv-00665-RGJ, in the Western District of Kentucky before Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings, and Magro v. Louisville Ladder, Inc., No. 2:26-cv-05253, also in the Eastern District of New York before Magistrate Judge Locke; both were filed on August 26, 2026. A CourtListener search by party name on October 21, 2026 showed no fourth attic-ladder case filed after Pedigo.
Why the new complaint matters: in Kentucky, Louisville Ladder’s motion argues that buyers whose own ladders did not fail have no standing. It says the plaintiffs “fail to allege that they are in possession of any defective ladders,” that standing “requires injury, not mere possibility,” and that the plaintiffs “allege knowledge of only eleven Attic Ladders with broken bolts.” The Pedigo plaintiff pleads exactly that situation — a recalled model, regular use, no breakage, no injury. If Judge Jennings accepts the company’s argument, the same argument is available in New York. If someone was actually injured, that is a separate personal-injury question; the three class actions seek buyers’ economic losses.
What to do: find the model number, check the bolts, register for the free kit
The CPSC instruction has not changed: “Consumers should stop using the recalled ladders immediately and register at Atticstairwayrecall.expertinquiry.com to receive a free repair kit.” The recall covers Louisville, Featherlite, Lite and Century attic stairway ladders “with gas struts only,” sold from November 2012 through July 2026 at The Home Depot, Lowe’s, Do It Best, Orgill, other retailers and Amazon.com. The brand name and model number are on the inside of the attic door.
Louisville ladder recall model numbers. Home Depot’s in-store recall poster, marked “Post until December 4, 2026,” lists 12 models sold there, among them AH2240MG-R5, AH2540MG-R5, AL2240LG-R5, AL2540LG-R5, AL2540MG-R10 and AL3040MG-R10, plus fire-rated “FT” versions such as AL2240MG-FT and AL2540MG-FT. That is one retailer’s list, not the full recall; Health Canada’s notice lists further models such as AA2210. The registration site checks your number. Health Canada adds two details: the problem is “the 1/4-inch chrome-colored bolts used in the spreader assembly,” on stairways “manufactured on or before June 22, 2026.”
If the kit is slow or the company does not respond, call Louisville Ladder at 888-679-5132, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET on weekdays. If that fails, the CPSC recall page has a complaint form: “If you are experiencing issues with a recall remedy or believe a company is being non-responsive to your remedy request, please use this form.” The CPSC hotline is 800-638-2772. Canadian owners can also email LouisvilleLadders8144@sedgwick.com. If a bolt on your ladder has already broken, keep the part and photograph it before installing the kit.
Real or scam: there is no settlement to pay you
There is no settlement administrator because there is no settlement. A text, email or call offering a “Louisville Ladder settlement payment,” or asking for a fee or bank details to release one, is not connected to any of the three court cases. The official channels are the ones regulators name: Atticstairwayrecall.expertinquiry.com, 888-679-5132, louisvilleladder.com (CPSC says to click “Urgent Recall Notice”), and, in Canada, the sedgwick.com address above. The CPSC notice describes the repair kit as free.
Search results for this recall include law-firm “investigation” pages. Those are advertising, not court notices. Contacting one does not sign you up for a settlement, because none exists.
What comes next, court by court
Kentucky (Braun). Louisville Ladder moved to dismiss on September 21, 2026 (Dkt. 20); the plaintiffs responded on October 13, 2026 (Dkt. 26). Under the Western District of Kentucky’s Local Rule 7.1, “A party may file a reply within 14 days of service of the response,” and replies are limited to 15 pages without leave. The plaintiffs’ response is not in the public archive, so we have not read it. After that, the motion is ready for Judge Jennings; no hearing date appears on the docket entries we read.
New York (Magro and Pedigo). In Magro, the company was served on September 16 with an answer due October 7, 2026; that day its counsel appeared and filed a corporate disclosure statement. As of October 21, 2026 the public index shows no answer, motion or extension after that, which may simply mean an entry is not yet indexed. In Pedigo, the company made the same two filings on October 16, 2026. Both cases sit with the same magistrate judge, and three overlapping cases in two courts often lead to a request to consolidate or transfer; none has been filed so far.
Louisville Ladder’s corporate parent, according to its filing in Braun (Dkt. 21), is Grupo Cuprum, S.A.P.I. de C.V. We will update this page when the Kentucky court rules or any case settles.
