Camp Lejeune?
Toxic Water.
If you were stationed at Camp Lejeune, you likely drank toxic water and may be entitled to substantial compensation. The expert attorneys at Meirowitz & Wasserberg have combined experience of over 100 years helping veterans with their toxic exposure cases.
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Did you serve, work, or live at Camp Lejeune for at least 30 days between 1953 and 1987?
The water at Camp Lejeune was severely contaminated. The United States has admitted that two on-base water wells that were shut down in 1985 had the following chemicals:
- Trichloroethylene (TCE)
- Perchloroethylene (PCE)
- Benzene
- Vinyl chloride
- Other compounds
The government has acknowledged that studies have successfully linked these toxins to many cancers, including bladder cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer, kidney cancer, leukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma, and many other conditions.
If you have suffered from any of these diseases, then you have grounds to pursue compensation.
- Aplastic anemia
- Birth defects
- Bladder Cancer
- Breast Cancer
- Esophageal Cancer
- Infertility/Miscarriage
- Fetal death
- Hepatic Steatosis
- Leukemia
- Lung cancer
- Multiple Myeloma
- Myelodysplastic
- Neurobehavioral effects
- Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
- Parkinson’s Disease
- Renal toxicity
- Scleroderma
- Kidney Cancer
Camp Lejeune Justice Act of 2022
On August 10, 2022, The United States Signed the Camp Lejeune Justice Act of 2022.
This Bill allows Marines and their families, as well as others living or working off-base, to seek the long-denied compensation for cancer and other illnesses and harm caused by their exposure to the toxic water at Camp Lejeune between 1953 and 1987.
The Camp Lejeune Justice Act of 2022 was necessary because the lawsuits filed by veterans and others in 2005 were eventually dismissed as barred by both the North Carolina statute of repose that says an injured person may not bring a lawsuit more than 10 years after contamination, as well as the “Feres Doctrine,” a federal law that holds service members may not sue the United States Government for illnesses or injuries sustained “incident to military service.”
The Camp Lejeune Justice Act of 2022 allows for water contamination lawsuits by Camp Lejeune victims who were diagnosed with cancer, other diseases, or wrongful death as a result of the toxic water.
Service members, or others who lived and worked at Camp Lejeune between 1953 to 1987, and who suffered from diseases as a result of water toxicity may be eligible for substantial compensation from the government.
If you or a loved one spent 30 days or longer at Camp Lejeune between 1953 and 1987, you may qualify for substantial financial compensation. Under the Camp Lejeune Justice Act, you will only have two years to file a claim for yourself, or a wrongful death lawsuit for a loved one.
Our toxic exposure lawyers are now accepting claims for service members and others seeking to file a Camp Lejeune lawsuit for compensation for cancer, deaths, or related harms from the poisoned water at this base. Victims from all 50 states may apply.
Almost 900,000 service members, their families, and others were potentially exposed to the contaminated water at Camp Lejeune, including these housing areas:
- Berkeley Manor
- Hadnot Point
- Hospital Point
- Knox Trailer Park (Frenchman's Point)
- Midway Park
- Paradise Point
- Tarawa Terrace
- Watkins Village
