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About A $50M Earplug Verdict: '3M Didn't Read the Room.'

Plaintiffs suing over 3M's dual-ended combat earplugs won two Florida verdicts, one of which was $50 million in compensatory damages. Here's a Reuters article on the March 25 verdicts, which came out in Tallahassee and Pensacola after two weeks of bellwether trials. The awards, one for $50 million and one for $8 million, are the 12th and 13th bellwether trials in the multidistrict litigation alleging 3M's earplugs caused hearing loss and ringing of the ears in hundreds of thousands of U.S. service members.