Shares of 3M Co. surged Wednesday after the maker of consumer, industrial and healthcare products said the U.S. Department of Defense’s records show that the “vast majority” of claimants in litigation...
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3M Earns Quick Appellate Review of Earplug Unit’s Bankruptcy Shield
A federal appeals court granted 3M Co. ’s request to review a bankruptcy judge’s refusal to stop mass injury lawsuits from proceeding against the conglomerate following the chapter 11 filing of its ea...
3M’s Bankruptcy Setback Deepens Earplug Litigation Troubles
3M Co. had good reason to bet that it could use U.S. bankruptcy laws to shield itself from a mountain of personal-injury lawsuits filed over its allegedly defective military earplugs. But after a bank...
3M Bankruptcy Tactic Fails as Combat Earplug Suits Move to Trial
(Bloomberg) — 3M Co.’s plan to use controversial bankruptcy rules to shield itself from some 230,000 lawsuits over military earplugs looked like a relatively simple fix to a long-simmering probl...
3M Is Denied Bankruptcy Shield Against Mass Earplug Claims
A bankruptcy judge declined on Friday to shield 3M Co. from continued litigation involving its military earplugs, a setback for the conglomerate’s attempt to shift the mass injury claims to a friendli...
3M Unit Defends Request to Shield Parent From Mass Earplug Lawsuits
Lawyers representing 3M Co. ’s bankrupt Aearo Technologies LLC subsidiary defended its request to a bankruptcy judge to extend a litigation stay to the parent company to resolve mass earplug lawsuits,...
3M Faces $100 Billion in Losses From Veterans’ Earplug Suits, Expert Says
(Bloomberg) — 3M Co. faces more than $100 billion in losses and bankruptcy because of lawsuits brought by veterans who blame their hearing problems on faulty earplugs, according to a litigation ...
Judge Knocks 3M Bankruptcy Strategy for Military Earplug Lawsuits
A federal judge criticized 3M Co. ’s attempt to use the protections of chapter 11 to resolve mass injury claims by U.S. military veterans, but will allow a bankruptcy court to decide whether to shield...