History of the Lawsuit From 2003 to 2015 Aero Technologies Inc. (A subsidiary of 3M) manufactured and supplied US Military Personnel with Combat Arms earplugs which were specifically engineered to protect military personnel from hearing damage when exposed to the various loud sounds associated with military training and actual combat noises. The CAEv2 were standard issue for serviceme...

Attorney Katherine Cornell, of Pulaski Kherkher Law firm, part of the trial team for the first-ever 3M Combat Arms Earplugs MDL trials, is pleased to announce that a federal jury found 3M Co. fully liable for the plaintiff’s hearing damage injuries and awarded plaintiffs $7,130,500.00 in damages. The total includes $2.1 in punitive damages for each of the three plaintiffs involved in the...