Katherine Snow Smith

1 month ago | legalexaminer.com | Piper Castillo |Katy Boose |Katherine Snow Smith |Yvette C. Hammett

Every day, more than 45,000 planes take off in the U.S. Most aircraft land without incident, but the minority that don’t can end in tragedy. In 2023, there were more than 1,216 accidents involving civilian aircraft, and 327 people died in these crashes. Many of these crashes involve smaller aircraft, but larger planes aren’t immune from misfortune, as recent disasters involving commercial jets indicate. Almost 90 people have died in airplane crashes in 2025 so far.

Dec 30, 2023 | tampabay.com | Katherine Snow Smith

I’m a klutz. I’m the first to admit it, and I have the scars to prove it. Don’t ask me to dance. But Katherine Snow Smith takes missteps to the Olympic level. In her first book, “Rules for the Southern Rulebreaker,” she told the story of borrowing a pair of towering heels to wear to a White House reception — then falling off them right in front of then-President Barack Obama, forcing the leader of the free world to graciously hoist her off the floor.

Dec 4, 2023 | legalexaminer.com | Libby Baldwin |Katherine Snow Smith

Hundreds of thousands of earplug lawsuits have been filed against global manufacturing giant 3M over their Combat Arms earplugs, alleging that a design flaw caused hearing damage or loss in countless active duty troops and veterans in Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2019, the cases were consolidated into multidistrict litigation (MDL) under one Florida judge to streamline the settlement process. They now represent the largest federal mass tort litigation in U.S. history.

Jan 20, 2023 | legalexaminer.com | Libby Baldwin |Katherine Snow Smith

A federal judge has barred 3M from using a liability strategy that would’ve shifted 3M earplug lawsuits to one of its subsidiaries. 3M has already had to pay more than $300 million in awards after 16 bellwether test trials. The plaintiffs claim that 3M knowingly sold earplugs that didn’t work properly to the U.S. military, leading to thousands of soldiers suffering preventable hearing loss and hearing damage. Last July, 3M attempted to place its subsidiary Aearo Technologies into bankruptcy.