Marines With Many Types Of Cancer Can File Camp Lejeune Justice Act Lawsuits

The Veterans Administration (VA) had in the past summarily rejected disability claims coming from Camp Lejeune veterans that did not fit within their presumptive illness guidelines

Friday, August 26, 2022 - Most of the time the disability income and health care rejections happened in error. If the type of Camp Lejeune cancer was not one of five types of the disease that the VA approved, VA administrators rejected the claim when they should have bounced the claim back to the applicant requesting more clarification on their illness. The Military Times reported that the VA mistakenly rejected 17,000 - 21,000 disabled veterans' claims because the type of cancer was not one of the eight that the VA pre-approved. According to the Inspector General's report, "Veterans were not informed of the specific evidence needed to support the claim before the decision ... Some of the veterans' claims might have been granted if veterans had been notified of the evidence needed to decide their claims."

According to the VA, the eight presumptive conditions that a Camp Lejeune Marine must have to be considered for disability income and health care benefits are Adult leukemia, Aplastic anemia, and other myelodysplastic syndromes, Bladder cancer, Kidney cancer, Liver cancer, Multiple myeloma, Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and Parkinson's disease." President Biden recently signed the Honoring Our Pact Act into law that expands the number of presumptive illnesses from drinking contaminated water and including respiratory diseases from working and living abroad next to toxic waste disposal burn pits. A key element of the Act is the Camp Lejeune Justice Act which recognizes that diseases like cancer can take years or more than a decade to manifest themselves. Many Marine Corps veterans that have been denied benefits because their illness was not one of the ones on the presumptive list are now filing Camp Lejeune water lawsuits to hold the US government accountable and seek lump-sum monetary awards. Lawyers have estimated that payouts from jury trials to compensate the loved ones of US marines that have died from cancer or those who have lost a child from water contamination cancer, to be in the range of $250,000 to over $1,000,000. There is no guarantee that a lawsuit will be successful and every case will be tried individually and stand or fall on its merits. Most Camp Lejeune Justice Act water attorneys will work on a contingency basis meaning that you pay nothing to them unless a favorable outcome is achieved.

According to Veteran's Life.com (VL), the Honoring Our Pact Act expands the number of illnesses that are presumed to have been caused by exposure to toxic burn pit air and water and will open up benefits to more than 3.5 million more veterans. The complete list of cancer and other presumptive illnesses can be found at Veteranslife.com. US Marines, civilian employees, and contractors working or living at Camp Lejeune from 1953 to 1987 that have died from or lost a loved one to cancer may now file a Camp Lejeune water lawsuit. The filing of the lawsuit does not effect the status of an Honoring Our Pact Act enhanced benefits claim.

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