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The litigation, which ranks as the largest mass tort in US history with 300,000 complaints, must be approved by the company’s board to move forward.
The sum is about half the roughly $10 billion some financial analysts predicted 3M could end up paying over allegations that the earplugs didn't adequately protect the hearing of service members.
3M Co. has tentatively agreed to pay more than $5.5 billion to resolve over 300,000 lawsuits claiming it sold the U.S. military defective combat earplugs, people familiar with the deal said.
The agreement means 3M will resolve some 300,00 lawsuits that allege the company supplied defective earplugs to the military.