Beal’s is the largest single award made to a plaintiff in the MDL, according to Law 360. 3M did not admit liability.īefore Beal’s win, 10 other MDL plaintiffs had won almost $300 million in total damages.
Before the MDL, 3M had already agreed to pay $9.1 million in 2018 to settle False Claims Act allegations that it knew its earplugs could loosen and lose their seal but sold them to the military anyway. 3M Paying Millions in Military Earplugs Damagesīeal’s case was the 16th and final lawsuit in multidistrict litigation against 3M with more than 280,000 plaintiffs alleging hearing damage after using 3M CAEv2 earplugs.
Beal will receive $5 million in compensatory damages and $72.5 million in punitive damages.īeal brought claims of negligence and fraudulent misrepresentation, among others, against 3M for the design defects in the company’s CAEv2 earplugs. Beal wore the earplugs while in active military service from 20 and then as a reservist until 2011 when he was exposed to noise from a variety of weapons. The veteran, James Beal, said 3M’s faulty earplugs led to his bilateral tinnitus and noise-induced hearing loss. Army veteran $77.5 million in damages, closing out his lawsuit that alleged defective 3M CAEv2 combat arms earplugs caused his hearing loss.
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