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 ...

3M has agreed to pay more than $6 billion to consumers and military members who alleged the company's ear plugs were defective and caused hearing loss, tinnitus and other hearing-related injuries.

A 3M subsidiary claims that U.S. Defense Department records show that over 175,00 military members who allege the Maplewood-based company's earplugs were defective have normal hearing under key ...

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 judge in Indiana has ruled that hundreds of thousands of lawsuits against 3M over allegedly faulty earplugs it provided to the U.S. Military will not be put on hold while the company’s ...

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 are nearing a more than $5 billion settlement to resolve hundreds of thousands of complaints by military veterans that the company's earplugs did not protect ...

Manufacturing giant 3M said it reached a $6 billion settlement Tuesday agreeing to resolve some 300,000 lawsuits that allege the company supplied defective earplugs to the military that left some with ...

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 ...

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 ...

The claims of hundreds of thousands of military service members who said they developed hearing loss or tinnitus by using defective earplugs knowingly sold to the U.S. military by 3M could be settled ...