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Jury Awards Veteran With Hearing Loss $1.7 Million in Third Bellwether Trial A Florida jury’s $1.7 million judgment in favor of the plaintiff on June 18, 2021, handed The 3M Company its second defeat in bellwether trials over hearing loss alleged to have resulted from the company’s earplugs. That’s more bad news for 3M, which won the second bellwether trial, according to Bloomberg Industry Group, but was on the losing side of a $7.1 million verdict in the first trial, the However, it’...

A jury on Friday awarded more than $7.1 million in damages to three former service members from Kentucky and Georgia in the first "bellwether trial" of a massive and complex lawsuit against the company. If the verdict stands — and if similar verdicts are reached in more bellwether trials — 3M could pay out millions to service members who used the Combat Arms Earplugs, Version 2 (CAEv2). 3M and its subsidiary Aearo Technologies sold the earplugs to the Department of Defense from 2003 ...

ADVERTISEMENT 3M Hit With $7.1M Verdict In Earplug MDL Bellwether Trial Law360 (April 30, 2021, 9:39 PM EDT) -- A Florida federal jury hit 3M with a $7.1 million verdict Friday, most of it punitive damages, in the first bellwether trial in a massive multidistrict litigation involving military members claims that their hearing was irreparably harmed because the companys combat earplugs didnt work. 3M is facing more than $7 million in damages after a jury sided with former servicemembers who sa...