3M hit with US$110 million verdict in latest US military earplug trial

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FLORIDA - A federal jury on Thursday awarded US$110 million to two US Army veterans who said combat earplugs sold by 3M to the military caused them to suffer hearing damage.

Jurors in Pensacola, Florida, sided with US Army veterans Ronald Sloan and William Wayman, who alleged that 3M's Combat Arms Earplugs Version 2's design was defective, lawyers for the plaintiffs' said.

Sloan and Wayman were each awarded US$15 million in compensatory damages and US$40 million in punitive damages, the lawyers said. Each won more than the previously largest verdict in the litigation of US$22.5 million.

 

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