Over three hundred thousand lawsuits have been filed over substandard noise control earmolds.
Multidisciplinary holding company 3M has tentatively agreed to pay 5.5 billion dollars for more than 300 lawsuits that were filed because of defective anti-noise earmolds for the U.S. military. About it writes Bloomberg.
The plaintiffs claim that because of low-quality earplugs became worse to hear or became deaf. Payments to settle the lawsuits will be made for five years.
But before a tentative agreement can be approved by the holding company's board of directors.
In June of this year, 3M reached an agreement on other lawsuits in which the company is accused of contaminating soil and water bodies. The payments will amount to more than 10 billion dollars.
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