Members Of Any Branch Of The Military May Be Eligible to File A Camp Lejeune Water Cancer Lawsuit If They Served On The Base

The surviving spouse or siblings of people who worked, trained, or were stationed at Camp Lejeune and later died from cancer should consider legal action against the federal government

Thursday, October 6, 2022 - The number of Camp Lejeune water cancer lawsuits that may be filed could exceed 500,000 if plaintiff attorney estimates are to be believed. Attorneys think the number of lawsuits could exceed the 300,000 or more servicemembers that filed to sue 3M over their manufacturing and selling of defective Combat Army earplugs that allegedly caused hearing loss and tinnitus. The number of Camp Lejeune water lawsuits could grow to become the largest mass-tort litigation in US history given the sheer number of military members, civilian employees, civilian business contractors, and family members who went through Camp Lejeune from 1953, when the water supply was found to be highly contaminated, to 1987 when the Department of Defense finally shut down the last water well servicing the base. According to Reuters the other day, "The Department of Health and Human Services Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry estimates as many as 1 million people may have been exposed to contamination, and some plaintiffs' attorneys estimate that up to 500,000 claims could be filed." 3M is also under legal fire because they were the original manufacturer of firefighting foam used at airports and municipal fire stations to extinguish jet-fuel and petroleum fires respectively. Military bases also use firefighting foam extensively. Lawsuits aim to prove that using firefighting foam contaminated local drinking water supplies throughout the United States with PFAS forever chemicals thought by the World Health Organization to be "probably carcinogenic."

The Camp Lejeune Justice Act, signed into law by the President in early August 2022 gives military personnel stationed at Camp Lejeune the ability to file a personal injury or wrongful death lawsuit against the federal government alleging negligence, carelessness, and recklessness on the part of the US Navy and Marine Corp for failing to protect the safety of people on the base. Different groups of people appear to have been injured by drinking Camp Lejeune water and many have died. Cancer has a latency period of ten to fifteen years before the symptoms become apparent so it is sometimes difficult to trace the origins of the disease. The Camp Lejeune Justice Act coincides with the Veterans Administration's (VA) presumption that certain types of cancer can be automatically attributed to drinking camp Lejeune water regardless of the lifestyle one chose to lead or family health history. "The U.S. government has acknowledged that the chemicals likely increased the risk of cancer and other health problems for residents," Reuters reports. This makes the likelihood of achieving a favorable court outcome all the more probable as the science has already been decided in favor of plaintiffs with cancer. Survivors of military servicemembers that died from Camp Lejeune water cancer are urged to come forward to tell their story to a Camp Lejeune water attorney for a free evaluation.

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