![]() Graham refused to grant 3M a stay in the litigation despite the bankruptcy filing, indicating the litigation can continue against 3M, despite the bankruptcy filing by Aearo. ![]() However, after a number of juries hit the companies with massive verdicts, and facing thousands of additional claims being prepared for trial, 3M Company has made the controversial decision to place Aearo Technologies into bankruptcy, and is attempting to argue that the multi-billion dollar parent company can not be independently held responsible for hearing loss caused by products it sold and profited from for years. Throughout the proceedings, 3M Company has defended the cases brought against both itself and its Aearo subsidiary, never raising any arguments during at least 16 trials that suggested it is not jointly responsible for the design. District Judge Casey Rodgers in the Northern District of Florida, as part of an MDL or multidistrict litigation. Given common questions of fact and law raised in the litigation, all lawsuits over hearing loss caused by the military earplugs have been centralized for the past three and a half years before U.S. 3M Company “upstreamed” the entire Aearo hearing protection business into itself, and continuing to sell the defective earplugs without warning about known problems that caused them to commonly fall out of the ear canal. The Combat Arms Earplugs version 2 (CAEv2) were initially developed by Aearo Technologies, which was acquired 3M Company in 2008. government with a known design defect, which left veterans without adequate ear protectors during combat and training exercises. Plaintiffs allege that the earplugs were sold to the U.S. military veterans are currently pursuing a product liability lawsuits after being left with hearing loss or tinnitus following military service, where they were provided 3M Combat Arms Earplugs as standard issue equipment before deployments between 20. appeals court to overturn a Federal bankruptcy judge’s decision to allow litigation to move forward in hundreds of thousands of Combat Arms earplug lawsuits, which are being pursued against the company by veterans left with hearing damage.
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