![]() Juries sided with 3M in the five others.įive more trials are scheduled this year. Plaintiffs in six trials, including Thursday's, have won more than $160 million combined. The trial was the 11th so far to reach a verdict. Plaintiffs allege the company hid design flaws, fudged test results and failed to provide instructions for the proper use of the earplugs. Paul, Minnesota, has agreed to pay 9. The use of the defective earplugs have led to hearing loss and. defective earplugs its dual-ended Combat Arms Earplugs, Version 2 to the. Defective Combat Arms Earplugs Version 2 (CAEv2) were sold to the military from 2003-2015. military safe."Īearo Technologies, which 3M bought in 2008, developed the product. According to The department of Justice, The 3M Company (3M), headquartered in St. The Dual-Ended Combat Arms Earplugs (CAEv2) were standard issued equipment. It noted it won the last two trials involving the earplugs and said its conduct was consistent with its "long-time commitment to keeping our U.S. "Juries continue to find that 3M's earplugs were defective and that they are responsible for causing irreparable hearing damage to those who served our country," plaintiffs' lawyers Bryan Aylstock, Shelley Hutson and Christopher Seeger said in a joint statement.ģM in a statement said it was disappointed and would appeal. Each won more than the previously largest verdict in the litigation of $22.5 million. Sloan and Wayman were each awarded $15 million in compensatory damages and $40 million in punitive damages, the lawyers said. The two men are among the nearly 300,000 service members and others who have sued 3M claiming they suffered hearing damage as a result of using the earplugs in what has become the largest federal mass tort litigation in U.S. Army veterans Ronald Sloan and William Wayman, who alleged that 3M's Combat Arms Earplugs Version 2's design was defective, lawyers for the plaintiffs' said. Jurors in Pensacola, Florida, sided with U.S. The previously largest 3M verdict award was 22.5 million. The jury then awarded each veteran 15 million in compensatory damages and 40 million in punitive damages. Army veterans who said combat earplugs sold by 3M Co (MMM.N) to the military caused them to suffer hearing damage, the largest verdict yet to result from hundreds of thousands of lawsuits over the product. The jury found that 3M’s Combat Arms Earplugs Version 2 were defective and caused the plaintiffs, Ronald Sloan and William Wayman, to suffer hearing damage. Jan 27 (Reuters) - A federal jury on Thursday awarded $110 million to two U.S.
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