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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESSWIRE / August 2, 2019 / Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP, a leading national securities law firm, reminds investors in 3M Company (“3M” or the “Company”) (MMM) of the September 27, 2019 deadline to seek the role of lead plaintiff in a federal securities class action that has been filed against the Company.
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The lawsuit has been filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey on behalf of all those who purchased 3M securities between February 9, 2017 and May 28, 2019 (the “Class Period”). The case, Heavy & General Laborers' Locals 472 & 172 Welfare Fund V. 3M Company, No. 2:19-cv-15982 was filed on July 29, 2019, and has been assigned to Judge Claire C. Cecchi.
The lawsuit focuses on whether the Company and its executives violated federal securities laws by issuing false and misleading statements to conceal the truth about the Company’s
exposure to legal liability associated with its most lucrative product offerings: manmade
chemicals known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (“PFAS”).
Specifically, while publicly denying that PFAS cause harm to humans and the environment, defendants concealed and misrepresented: (1) 3M’s vast internal evidence dating back decades confirming that PFAS are toxic (which was first publicly revealed in February 2018 by Minnesota’s Attorney General); (2) 3M’s decades-long history of suppressing negative information and/or damaging data about PFAS; and (3) 3M’s legal exposure to state, county, and local governments and individuals around the country as a result of its knowledge and intentional concealment of the toxic harm caused by the use of PFAS. These omissions and misrepresentations caused 3M’s stock price to trade at artificially inflated prices throughout the Class Period.
On this news, 3M’s stock price fell from $219.08 per share on April 24, 2019 to $190.72 per share on April 25, 2019-a $28.36 or a 12.95% drop.
On May 14, 2019, New Jersey filed suit against 3M and other PFAS manufacturers alleging environmental and consumer fraud claims in connection with making and selling firefighting foam products for decades in New Jersey that contained toxic chemicals. Noting that nearly one in five New Jersey residents had received tap water that contained at least trace amounts of one of these chemicals, some of which have been linked to cancer, the lawsuit alleged that the companies knew that their firefighting foam posed a significant health threat.