A Florida jury on Friday ordered manufacturing company 3M to pay $110 million in damages over defective earplugs.
Army veterans Ronald Sloan and William Wayman were awarded $55 million each in compensatory and punitive damages after an eight-person jury decided that the company was to blame for their hearing loss.
The sum of money is twice the size of all other earplug-related rulings combined.
Claims were filed by more than 250,000 veterans and military personnel who allege they suffered hearing loss while wearing 3M’s Combat Arms CAEv2 earplugs.
This week’s ruling is the latest update in potential settlements for large-scale litigation.