3M Nears Settlement for About $5.5 Billion to Resolve Earplugs Complaints

The litigation over hearing-loss complaints ranks as the largest mass tort in U.S. history, with more than 300,000 claims.

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Veterans allege that 3M and Aearo Technologies, a company 3M acquired in 2008, produced faulty earplugs that failed to protect their hearing from noise damage when issued to them by the U.S. military.

I bet 3M wishes they didn't acquire Aearo Technologies
- If it was that stupid squishy shit then yeah. I don’t have a ton of hearing loss but my right ear is worse than my left.
  
  Mine is worse on the left. Maybe we can combine our ears and have the ability to hear things fully again!
  
  Bruh we stood right next to jet engines with those things in our ears.
Lol it's funny, they cornered the market on earplugs but then they turned out to be shit. 3M is responsible for so much damage to humans and the environment its not even funny. Get rekt.
What?
- HE SAID IT'S EGGS FOR BREAKFAST!
  
  NO, BETTER SWAP THE WHOLE TRANSMISSION!
- EARPLUGS WERE SHIT!
  
  Nah, yer hugs were shit!
Is this the same thing that I kept hearing ads on radio about?
- If you can hear the radio ads, then you weren't using their product.
  
  Gottem
I wore the blue ones all the time.
It's funny. This lawsuit is what got me to finally get rated. I have serviced connected tinnitus, rated 0%.

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