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Company · Medical Devices & Equipment

3M Company

Federal civil lawsuits naming 3M Company, a Medical Devices & Equipment company.

Public CompanyMedical Devices & Equipment
Ticker
NYSE: MMM
Business
Surgical & Medical Instruments & Apparatus
Headquarters
St Paul, MN
Incorporated in
Delaware
SEC CIK
66740

3M Company is a public company in Surgical & Medical Instruments & Apparatus, based in St Paul, MN (traded on NYSE as MMM, incorporated in Delaware). It appears in 135,622 federal civil lawsuits in this index, most often as a defendant (135,396 of 135,622). These cases are most often Product Liability and Real Property matters, filed between 1990 and 2026, most frequently in District Court, N.D. Florida.

Also recorded in dockets as: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co · 3M Company F K A Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company · Minnesota Mining · Minnesota Mining Manufacturing Company · 3M Company F K A Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co · Minnesota Mining and M · Minnesota Mining and · 3M Company F K A Minesota Mining and Manufacturing Company.

Corporate Family Part of the 3M family — 135,658 cases across 2 affiliated entities.
135,622
Lawsuits
135,396
As Defendant
226
As Plaintiff
20,874
Open
114,748
Terminated
1990–2026
Span
4.2 yr
Median Duration
133,754 of these cases (99%) are Product Liability filings — large waves of near-identical suits consolidated into multidistrict litigation (MDL) proceedings. The totals and the year chart reflect that concentration, not typical caseload.
3665 cases/yrNamed as defendant in 100% of cases99% Product LiabilityRecent filings up

Cases by State

AL — 571 casesAZ — 34 casesAR — 21 casesCA — 0 casesCO — 10 casesCT — 16 casesDE — 33 casesDC — 6 casesFL — 104,592 casesGA — 53 casesID — 2 casesIL — 60 casesIN — 68 casesIA — 11 casesKS — 8 casesKY — 36 casesLA — 47 casesME — 4 casesMD — 19 casesMA — 59 casesMI — 20 casesMN — 6,846 casesMS — 73 casesMO — 121 casesMT — 1 casesNE — 2 casesNV — 9 casesNH — 4 casesNJ — 55 casesNM — 10 casesNY — 505 casesNC — 128 casesND — 1 casesOH — 40 casesOK — 22 casesOR — 19 casesPA — 2,100 casesRI — 22 casesSC — 19,333 casesSD — 0 casesTN — 12 casesTX — 542 casesUT — 4 casesVT — 4 casesVA — 18 casesWA — 24 casesWV — 22 casesWI — 18 casesWY — 1 cases
AK · 4HI · 1PR · 7

Open Cases Over Time

1990peak 101,285 open2026

Case Types Over Time

19902026
Product LiabilityReal PropertyCivil RightsPatentContract

Filings by Year

19902026

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Product Liability133,754
Real Property1,044
Civil Rights159
Patent152
Contract139
Personal Property / Fraud125

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Clustered litigation · MDL 133,754 Product Liability member cases 99% of the caseload is a wave of near-identical suits consolidated into multidistrict litigation — grouped here rather than listed one by one. Browse all 133,754 member cases →

1,868 Other Cases — Newest First

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