Laura Hammargen, a 2008 law graduate of St. Thomas University (STU) in Minnesota, recently spoke out on a number of issues after recently being named to the 2020 Benchmark Litigation 40 & Under Hot List.

STU recently caught up with Hammargen, who works at 3M. The school's Newsroom asked Hammargen about 3M’s efforts amid the pandemic to investigate more than 4,000 suspected cases of fraud, counterfeiting and price gouging connected with its N95 masks. 

The fraud cases led to 18 lawsuits in 10 states and Canada. As of July, 3M has won six temporary restraining orders and four injunction orders.

‘’I am one of a few of us who have been tasked with bringing civil lawsuits against the fraudsters, together with our outside counsel teams,’’ Hammargen told the Newsroom in a release on the university's website. “One of my cases involving a third-party seller on Amazon recently settled, with an agreement that they would stop selling 3M’s products, would give us all the information they had related to these fraud issues, and pay more than $192,000, which 3M is donating to a COVID-related charity. The fact that people are trying to profit off the pandemic is just terrible, and I’m so proud to be part of the team stopping that. And, admittedly, it is some fun work.’’