Marines That Develop Parkinson's Disease Can File A Camp Lejeune Water Contamination Lawsuit

Of all of the deadly diseases caused by drinking Camp Lejeune water, Parkinson's disease may be the most prevalent

Monday, September 5, 2022 - Parkinson's disease is on the list of diseases that the Veteran's Administration (VA) presumes was caused by drinking VOC-contaminated tap water at Camp Lejeune. Parkinson's disease is a permanent, irreversible neurological disorder that affects a person's ability to think, remember, or move. People with Parkinson's often look stiff and have trouble coordinating their limbs to produce normal walking or movement. According to the National Institute of Health, certain VOCs found in the Camp Lejeune water treatment facilities at alarmingly high levels could lead to one developing Parkinson's disease later in life. According to the NIH, "Expert evaluators, unaware of which study subjects had Parkinson's, reviewed this information and calculated lifelong exposure to six chemicals: TCE, PERC, carbon tetrachloride, n-hexane, xylene, and toluene. Of these, TCE and PERC posed a notable risk for developing Parkinson's." The chemicals that contaminated the Camp Lejeune water were undetectable by the water consumer because they are odorless and colorless. trichloroethylene (TCE), tetrachloroethylene (PERC), vinyl chloride (VC), and benzene are all on the Camp Lejeune water contamination chemical list.

The Honoring Our Pact Act and Camp Lejeune Justice Act give Marines, civilian employees, and contractors that lived or worked on the marine base the opportunity to file a Camp Lejeune water lawsuit and present their case to a jury. That is a far cry from what thousands of US Marines experienced over the last few years when more than 4500 Camp Lejeune water cancer lawsuits were rejected by the Navy because time had run out, legally speaking, for the injured marines to file a lawsuit against the federal government. Congressmen were outraged when they heard of the Navy abandoning the needs of servicemen and their families and fought to pass the two landmark pieces of veteran's rights legislation. The Pact Act, as it is being called, was signed into law early in August 2022. Soldiers who have been injured by drinking the Camp Lejeune tap water from 1953 to 1987 now have a great chance to receive lump-sum monetary compensation for their out-of-pocket medical expenses, lost wages, pain, and suffering, loss of consortium and other monetary damages the jury sees fit to award them. It has been more than 70 years since the first instances of water contamination happened at Camp Lejeune and thousands of Marines and their families may have been injured or killed by the toxins in the water. More than one million people spent at least 30-days at Camp Lejeune from 1953 to 1987 so the number of Camp Lejeune lawsuits that may be filed over the next two years could be staggering. Even today, very few people that passed through Camp Lejeune have been able to make the connection between drinking tap water and getting cancer. Most who have bladder, kidney, or other forms of cancer have lived a healthy, military life, never smoked, and have no history of cancer in their family. Camp Lejeune drinking water was tested and contained more than 280 times the amount of volatile organic compounds, thought to cause cancer.

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