3M earplug settlement on track as service members and veteran opt into $6B deal
More than 30,000 service members and military veterans have agreed to 3Ms settlement over allegedly faulty earplugs, prompting 3M to issue $253 million in payments. 3M in recent past made $250 million in first payments to more than 30,000 claimants end of December. The milestone is important due to unanimous level of acceptance is needed fro the 276,000 claimants in order of the $6 billion settlement declared previous summer to be valid. The payments will be made by the end of the month to thousand plaintiffs who were ready to go to trial as the settlement was drafted and have now agreed to participate in the settlement and release their claims. The Maplewood based company declared the settlement in August after 5 years of litigation battle into one of the mega mass torts in United States of America history. More than 25000 active service members and veteran blamed