IN RE: 3M COMBAT ARMS EARPLUG PRODUCTS LIABILITY LITIGATION

  1. November 26, 2024

    3M Says $6B Settlement Docs Needed In AIG Europe Fight

    3M is urging a Florida federal court to release information relating to its recently inked $6 billion deal ending claims over allegedly faulty combat earplugs to a London arbitral tribunal, which is tasked with determining whether insurer AIG Europe Ltd. is wrongly refusing to pay its share of the historic pact.

  2. November 14, 2024

    3M Earplug Attys Near OK Of Up To $540M MDL Payout

    A Florida federal judge agreed Wednesday to hold back 9% — or up to $540 million — from 3M's landmark $6.01 billion deal for fees and costs in multidistrict litigation over allegedly faulty combat earplugs, agreeing with a finding that the request is fair given the "tremendous" work of 68 plaintiffs' firms.

  3. September 23, 2024

    Wash. Agency No Longer Seeking Names In 3M Earplug Case

    The Washington state agency that handles child support claims seems no longer interested in seeking information on service members who are expected to receive payments from the 6 billion settlement from 3M Co. over injuries stemming from its Combat Arms Earplugs.

  4. September 04, 2024

    3M Earplug Plaintiffs Want Child Support Subpoena Blocked

    The plaintiffs' leadership group representing service members and others in multidistrict litigation against 3M Co. over injuries stemming from its Combat Arms Earplugs asked a Florida federal court Wednesday to block the state of Washington Division of Child Support from interfering in the $6 billion settlement reached earlier this year.

  5. June 03, 2024

    No Sanctions For 'Fraudulent' Signatures In 3M Earplug MDL

    A Florida federal judge has decided against sanctioning two law firms that signed documents in place of their clients but chastised their lawyers' "obviously improper" act, which could have cut their clients out of their share of the $6 billion settlement in the 3M combat earplugs multidistrict litigation.

  6. May 22, 2024

    3M Says Insurers Are Dodging Coverage Of $6B Earplug Deal

    3M and its subsidiary Aearo Technologies have reported difficulties getting their insurers to pay out more than $1.5 billion in coverage after the companies reached a $6 billion deal to settle multidistrict litigation alleging their combat earplugs failed to protect the hearing of service members and veterans.

  7. January 16, 2024

    3M Earplug Trial Litigants Agree To $6B Deal

    3M has said that since it reached a $6 billion deal to end claims that its combat earplugs failed to protect the hearing of service members and veterans, it has won the support of plaintiffs who had been preparing to go to trial in Florida and Minnesota.

  8. November 06, 2023

    3M Earplug Judge Drops Over 3,500 Claims In MDL

    The Florida federal judge overseeing the 3M earplug multidistrict litigation has closed several claims due to duplicate cases and overlapping representation, which she said have "plagued" the case, after her deadline ordering dupes be dropped and overlapping counsel issues be resolved passed.

  9. October 16, 2023

    3M Earplug MDL Judge Warns Of Scam Calls To Claimants

    Scammers are reaching out to some of the 260,000 claimants in the tentative $6 billion settlement which could end allegations that 3M combat earplugs caused hearing damage, a Florida federal judge said, warning claimants and attorneys not to be fooled by the callers.

  10. October 10, 2023

    3M Earplug MDL Judge Threatens Sanctions For Dupe Filings

    A federal magistrate judge overseeing a massive multidistrict lawsuit military veterans and service members brought against 3M for faulty combat earplugs warned plaintiffs' attorneys Saturday that sanctions would be issued if they continued to create duplicate claims and filings that she said wasted court resources and added needless complexity to the largest multidistrict litigation in U.S. history.