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3M Co. said on Tuesday that Bryan Hanson would be the chief executive officer of the healthcare company it plans to spin off.

A U.S. judge on Thursday barred 3M Co. from trying to avoid liability for injuries current and former U.S. military members sustained from its allegedly defective earplugs by shifting blame to a subsidiary.

Two U.S. military veterans on Thursday sued 3M Co. to block its planned spinoff of its healthcare business, which they called an illegal attempt to avoid compensating veterans for hearing damage caused by the company’s military-issue earplugs.

The standalone Health Care business will be a leading global diversified healthcare technology company focused on wound care, oral care, healthcare IT, and biopharma filtration