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Below are some of our news stories explaining the lawsuit against 3M involving the sale of defective military combat earplugs . To learn more, click Military Combat Earplugs.

 
Tuesday, December 14, 2021

On Friday, December 10, 2021, 3M faced another defeat in federal court, as a jury awarded $22.5 million to plaintiff Theodore Finley, according to Reuters. A former U.S. Army soldier, Finley…

Monday, May 10, 2021

Brian Barr and Troy Bouk, attorneys at Pensacola-based law firm Levin Papantonio Rafferty, emerged victorious in the first 3M military earplugs lawsuit to…

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

More than 220,000 military members have been patiently waiting for 3M to be held accountable for service members’ hearing losses suffered because of the company’s defective earplugs. That wait now…

Monday, September 28, 2020

Aearo Technologies’ Combat Arms earplugs were standard issue for U.S. soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. The devices were hailed as groundbreaking technology that enabled soldiers to…

Sunday, August 2, 2020

A federal court judge ruled on Friday, July 24, 2020, that 3M created designs for its Combat Arms Earplugs, Version 2 (CAEv2) without U.S. military input, and so the company cannot use the…

Thursday, January 17, 2019

In August of 2018, the 3M Corporation entered into a $9.1 million settlement with the U.S. government over allegations that it had deliberately sold defective equipment to the Department of…

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