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 ...

11-NEWS EYE TEAM REPORTER LISA ROBINSON EXPLAINS. >> >> COMBAT NOISE FOR SOLDIERS IN TRAINING OR FIGHTING ON THE FRONT LINES ON THE GROUND, AT SEA AND IN THE AIR IS A HAZARD. TO PROTECT THEIR HEARING, ...

Hundreds of military veterans are expected to file lawsuits against the manufacturing company 3M, claiming it knowingly sold defective earplugs. These complaints come after the Justice Department ...

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.

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 ...

Minnesota-based 3M announced Tuesday it is taking action to resolve hundreds of thousands of legal claims that the combat earplugs produced for the U.S. military by subsidiary Aearo Technologies were ...

An Army veteran who claimed earplugs made by 3M caused him to suffer hearing damage was awarded $50 million by a federal jury Friday, the second-largest verdict related to the product, which has been ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Thousands of veterans have filed lawsuits against the Minnesota-based company 3M, saying that the earplugs the company provided, which were supposed to protect their ears from loud ...

MINNEAPOLIS – Hundreds of thousands of veterans suing Minnesota company 3M are celebrating a legal victory. The lawsuits stem from allegedly defective earplugs that 3M sold to the U.S. military. David ...

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 ...