Class Action Suit- defective furnace

I just recently found out that the manufacturer of my defective furnace had a class action suit against them in 2001. My HOA didn't alert us until 2002 that our furnaces were defective and never mentioned anything about this lawsuit. At that time our board and operation manager were incompetent; last year the homeowners voted all of them out.

I approached our current board and management company about this and I'm afraid they want to just sweep it away. This is how I worded my request, "I'm inquiring on this past class action suit irrespective if I was entitled to it or not. In the future if something like this happens again as a (community name)homeowner am I solely responsible for being notified about alerts, recalls, or class action suits pertaining to my (community name) town home?

Should I just drop the matter and I think the current board would I do because it means more headaches for them?

Thank you,
Patsy

This is a furnace in my attic and I realize it's "inside" and not an outside fixture. But we found out about the alert from the HOA in 2002.

Thanks,
PatsyO2

Patsy,
The question was: Who owns the furnance? Who changes tthe filters and who pays for maintenance?

There were 132 townhomes with these defective furnaces in our attics. Each home owner is responsible to maintain their furnaces. But it was the HOA that alerted us about the furnace defective in 2002. They contracted heating company to inspect each furnace and gave us an "ok" but find out later they ignored the warnings sent out by the CPSC. Just this year the new HOA board is enforcing they we have them inspected. The gas company "red tagged" my furnace last week.