3M is nearing a $5.5 billion settlement over ear plug liability, which is at the low end of analyst estimates. The ear plug liability is smaller compared to the potential PFAS liability, which could ...

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 veterans across the country, including dozens from Minnesota, are accusing Maplewood-based 3M of selling the military "dangerously defective" ear plugs that failed to protect Marines and ...

Thousands of British veterans are taking legal action after alleging that faulty ear plugs they were given in Afghanistan have resulted in them developing tinnitus and deafness. The military personnel ...

The company has entered into a co-branding agreement with New Dynamics Corporation that means more than 20 employees, some of whom have disabilities, will assemble, package, and distribute five 3M ...

3M announced Tuesday that it agreed to pay $6 billion to settle hundreds of thousands of lawsuits alleging 3M’s military earplugs caused hearing loss for U.S. service members. The company said it ...

More than 30,000 active service members and veterans will receive $253 million from 3M in a settlement after a lawsuit alleged that combat earplugs from the conglomerate led to hearing loss, tinnitus ...

SAINT LOUIS, Mo. — Retired Army Master Sergeant, Greg Santoni, said his Facebook feed is filled with ads recruiting members of the armed forces that served between 2003-2015. The ads claim 3M supplied ...

Eight months after the 3M company agreed to pay the U.S. government $9.1 million to resolve allegations it knowingly sold the U.S. military defective earplugs, the first Connecticut lawsuit alleging ...

A former bomb disposal expert says he is partially deaf after setting off explosives while wearing ear plugs which "did not do the job". Rikki Drury, from Redcar, regularly wore the ear defenders ...