In the latest in a series of bellwether trials, two veterans were awarded $110 million in damages by a federal jury in northern Florida over hearing problems caused by military earplugs manufactured by 3M and distributed to all U.S. service members for years. The case was the tenth bellwether trial held in the U.S. federal…
A Florida federal jury awarded $22.5 million to a U.S. Army veteran left with hearing loss and tinnitus attributed to the defective design of 3M’s Combat Arms earplug version 2 (CAEv2)..This award comes on the heels of a November judgement against 3M for $13 million. In the latest trial, which concluded Dec 10th, the jury…
In recent years, veterans have filed over 250,000 lawsuits against 3M alleging that defective earplugs were distributed to U.S. military service members between 2003 and 2015 that failed to safely seal the ear canal against loud impulse sound that left users with permanent hearing damage or tinnitus. In recent weeks several of these bellwether lawsuits…
