Hundreds of thousands of military veterans have been diagnosed with profound hearing loss as a result of being exposed to loud noise during their time in uniform.
The armed forces were supposed to provide military service members with protection to keep this from happening, especially when service members were deployed overseas. However, some of these protection devices were defective, and retired service members not suffer from hearing problems.
Attorneys are filing hearing loss lawsuits against 3M, now the owner of the company that made the combat earplugs.