The Camp Lejeune Justice Act Empowers The Survivors of Marines That Died From Cancer Since 1953

Thousands of lawsuits are anticipated as Marines are made aware the new law enables them to file a wrongful death lawsuit against the government

Saturday, August 13, 2022 - The Camp Lejeune Justice Act (CLJA) is the centerpiece of the Honoring Our Pact Act that President Biden signed into law late last week. The CLJA eliminates the statute of limitations that prevented thousands of marine families from filing lawsuits against the Marine Corp, Department of Defense, and the US government for their carelessness, recklessness, and negligence in failing to warn them that their tap water was toxic. Thousands of US Marines have developed many types of Camp Lejeune cancer from drinking tap water and have died as a result. The surviving spouses and other family members have waited for decades and fought the government for the right they now have to file a lawsuit and seek justice for their spouse's mother's or father's wrongful death. One such Camp Lejeune water cancer victim died more than 40 years ago. His surviving sister, herself currently suffering from cancer, is preparing to file a lawsuit more than 40 years after her brother's death.

A North Carolina woman is filing a Camp Lejeune water lawsuit seeking lump-sum compensation for the death of her brother more than 40 years ago. The woman estimates that she is not alone and thousands more survivors will be contacting a Camp Lejeune water attorney. "Nearly 40 years later, Boxx is still trying to make sense of her brother's death. She counts herself among the thousands of family members of veterans fighting for recognition and compensation from the U.S. military over decades of negligent water contamination at Lejeune that caused myriad cancers and other significant negative health impacts on servicemembers, their dependents, and employees on the base," according to CharlestonCityPaper.com.

The Centers For Disease Control (CDC) position papers are strongly in support of the science underlying the contamination of the Camp Lejeune Marine Base water wells. Drinking the tap water for more than 30 consecutive days at any time from 1953 to the time of the well's shutting in 1987 likely caused cancer. The types of cancer, according to the CDC that Marines, their spouses, and children have reported suffering from include but are not limited to kidney cancer, multiple myelomas, and leukemia. If you have had a loved one serve at Camp Lejeune during the 34 years in which the wells were known by the Marine Corp to be contaminated, you should be awarded the CDC's official position on the subject of exactly what killed your loved one. The CDC writes, "ATSDR's Position on the Water Contamination at Camp Lejeune. It is ATSDR's position that past exposures from the 1950s through February 1985 to trichloroethylene (TCE), tetrachloroethylene (PCE), vinyl chloride, and other contaminants in the drinking water at Camp Lejeune likely increased the risk of cancers (kidney, multiple myeloma, leukemias, and others), adverse birth outcomes, and other adverse health effects of residents (including infants and children), civilian workers, Marines ,and Naval personnel at Camp Lejeune."

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