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In an online summary about the litigation, the Florida-based law firm notes that 3M previously agreed to pay $9.1 million to settle a lawsuit on behalf of the government alleging the company ...
The current-day settlement began in 2016 with a lawsuit from 3M’s competitor, Moldex-Metric, which alleged that 3M sold “dangerously defective” Combat Arms earplugs, standard issue to ...
(Reuters) -3M has agreed to pay $6.01 billion to settle lawsuits by U.S. military veterans and service members who say they suffered hearing loss from using the company's earplugs, the company and ...
Moldex-Metric claimed that 3M made false claims to the U.S. government about the safety of its earplugs and that it knew the earplugs had an inherently defective design. [109] In 2018, 3M agreed to pay $9.1 million to the U.S. government to resolve the allegations, without admitting liability. [110]
3M manufactures Scotch Tape brand of tape, which accounted for 90% of the U.S. transparent tape market until the early 1990s, concededly a monopoly. Around 1980 LePage's decided to sell private label transparent tape, which is tape sold under the retailer's name rather than under the name of the manufacturer.
Since then, 3M has continued to use PFAs in a variety of products, with Scotchgard being the most well known and commercially lucrative. [4] Until the early 2000s, waste from the production of PFAs was dumped at four sites in Minnesota, the Washington County Landfill, the 3M Cottage Grove Chemolite Site, the 3M Woodbury site, and the 3M Oakdale ...
The initial $253 million, part of a larger $6 billion settlement from 3M will go to more than 250,000 active service members and veterans.
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