Some troops who have filed lawsuits over earplugs they say were defective may be in line for around $15,000 each as part of a $6 billion settlement with manufacturing conglomerate 3M, Task & Purpose ...

Facing thousands of lawsuits from U.S. service members who said 3M earplugs failed to protect their hearing, the manufacturing giant announced it is committing $1 billion to a trust to resolve the ...

The Florida trial brought by active-duty Army Sgt. Guillermo Camarillorazo is the largest jury award to date in the cases filed over allegations that the CAEv2 tactical earplugs produced by Aearo ...

A federal jury in Florida awarded $77.5 million in damages, including $72.5 million in punitive damages, to a former soldier who filed a claim alleging that his hearing loss resulted from defective 3M ...

3M lost two more cases Friday in its massive legal battle over military earplugs, and one came with a particular sting: a $50 million judgment against the company. In both cases, veterans claimed that ...

3M and attorneys representing plaintiffs agreed to a $6 billion settlement to resolve hundreds of thousands of complaints by military veterans that the company's earplugs did not protect them from ...

Aug 26 (Reuters) - 3M Co must face more than 230,000 lawsuits accusing it of selling defective earplugs to the U.S. military, after a U.S. judge on Friday ruled that the bankruptcy of a subsidiary did ...

With an $8.2 million jury award going against 3M Friday, the company has now lost three of four bellwether trials in a colossal legal battle over whether it sold defective earplugs to the military, ...

3M Co. said Monday the litigation settlement for selling potentially faulty earplugs to the military is on track to exceed the 98% participation threshold it agreed to by the final registration date ...

3M Co. lost the first lawsuit to go to trial over the safety of earplugs it sold for years to the military, with a federal jury Friday awarding $7.1 million to three veterans and finding the company ...