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**The period for initiating legal action in the defective 3M earplug lawsuit has ended**
If you served in the military from 2003-2015 and now have hearing loss or ringing in the ears, you may be eligible for compensation due to defective 3M combat earplugs. Legal documentation shows that in 2000, the company 3M tested its dual-ended earplugs and found them to be faulty.
Despite this, the earplugs were wrongly issued to active duty service members for more than a decade. They have now been discontinued.
Here’s what our VA disability lawyers want you to know about the pending lawsuit.
You are eligible to join the lawsuit if you:
You can contact our VA disability lawyers in Kalamazoo, MI, by phone at (844) 838-5297 or by email at CD@vadisabilitygroup.com.
The law firm will receive its compensation on a contingent fee, which means that the lawyers will only get paid if the claimant gets paid. The attorney contingent fee is usually 1/3 of the claimant’s compensation.
Yes. This is not a DOD or VA matter. Your discharge type is irrelevant.
No. Your participation in this lawsuit will have no impact on your VA disability compensation. If you are receiving disability compensation for hearing loss or tinnitus, those disability payments and evaluations assigned by the VA will continue with no change whatsoever.
It’s too early to know for sure. However, it’s not uncommon for individuals to receive tens of thousands of dollars in cases such as these.
The case may be settled sometime in 2019, so it’s important you don’t sit on your rights. Act now.
Yes. Any potentially eligible claimants should contact us.
Dual-ended 3M combat earplugs listed in this lawsuit are green (may appear black) on one side and yellow (may appear gold) on the other. They are often described as dual-sided and tapered. The earplugs are visually depicted in the image above.
The dual-ended 3M combat earplugs listed in this lawsuit indicated a certain level of noise protection for the wearer. However, the basic function of the earplugs was faulty as they were too short to effectively block out noise. The earplugs could also loosen imperceptibly in the wearer’s ear, leaving them vulnerable. Both product design shortcomings exposed military personnel to damaging noise levels that contributed to hearing loss and/or tinnitus.
Still have questions about 3M defective combat earplugs? Our VA disability attorneys in Kalamazoo, MI, are dedicated to helping veterans just like you get the compensation they deserve. To schedule an appointment with The VA Disability Group, call 1-844-VET-LAWS.