![]() The whistleblower provisions of the False Claims Act, under which the lawsuit was filed, allows a private party to sue on the government’s behalf when government funds are secured with the use of deception. in 2016, alleging that both companies knew the earplugs were defective but failed to notify and still sold them to the Defense Logistics Agency. Whistleblower LawsuitĪ whistleblower lawsuit was filed against 3M and the original manufacturer, Aearo Technologies Inc. ![]() Before then, the already existing claims totaled well over 2 million, with 1,157,585 cases of hearing loss and 1,786,980 cases of tinnitus. Nearly 160,000 new claims for tinnitus and over 80,000 for hearing loss were filed with the Veterans Administration in 2017.
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