On December 10, a federal jury in Tallahassee, Florida awarded former U.S. Army veteran Theodore Finley $22.5 million, including $15 million in punitive damages, against earplug manufacturers 3M Co.and Aearo Technologies LLC. The plaintiff had alleged that as a result...
In an order filed on August 9, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida denied earplug manufacturer 3M’s motion for a new trial, stating that 3M and its predecessor Aearo, LLC, had failed to prove that it had been prejudiced in the first...
On May 28, a federal court jury in Pensacola, FL found 3M not liable after less than one day of deliberation in the second bellwether trial held in the Combat Arms Earplug Version 2 (CAEv2) multi-district litigation. The jury determined that 3M was not responsible...
On May 11, presiding Judge M. Casey Rodgers ruled against 3M by finding that one of its experts was not qualified to offer an opinion in the MDL bellwether case that was scheduled to begin trial on May 17 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of...
On April 30, in the first bellwether trial to be held in the 3M earplugs multidistrict litigation, a Pensacola jury awarded $7.1 million to three former service members who claimed the company’s defective earplugs irreparably damaged their hearing. The plaintiffs,...
The first bellwether trial brought by former military service members against 3M and predecessor, Aearo LLC for allegedly defective earplugs started March 29 in Pensacola, FL. The plaintiffs include three Army veterans who claim that from 2003-2015, 3M knowingly...
At a March 13 hearing in Florida federal court, two industrial hygienists were barred from testifying in the upcoming multidistrict litigation involving defective earplugs manufactured by 3M. In their motion, plaintiffs challenged the expert testimony of two...
In response to motions filed by the plaintiffs in the upcoming bellwether trials in the 3M multidistrict litigation, U.S. District Judge M. Casey Rodgers has found in favor of the plaintiffs, ruling that Washington and Alaska state law would apply in two of the cases...
In a pre-trial order issued on December 30, 2020 the Florida federal judge overseeing the 3M earplugs litigation consolidated three bellwether cases and set trial dates for the five cases that were part of Bellwether Group A and the subject of a December 7, 2020...
There have been several new developments in the 3M Combat Arms Earplugs litigation—one of the largest consumer mass torts ever. 3M has filed a motion in Phoenix Federal Court requesting the judge to render a decision in response to its request to force Top Class...
