Camp Lejeune Water
Contamination Attorneys
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Testing showed several harmful chemicals in the water supply, including:

• Benzene — found naturally in gasoline and crude oil and used in several manufacturing processes.
• Methylene chloride — a chemical solvent.
• Tetrachloroethylene/ Perchloroethylene — used in dry cleaning.
• Trichloroethylene — used in household cleaning products, refrigerants, metal degreasing solvents, and dry cleaning.
• Vinyl chloride — a gas formed by some of the other substances breaking down.

When exposed to these chemicals, humans can contract severe health-related conditions, including death.

Those at Camp Lejeune during the specified period contracted multiple illnesses. Lawsuits mention several of these, including:

• Cancers: bladder, breast, cervical, esophageal, kidney, leukemia, liver, lung, myelodysplastic syndrome, multiple myeloma, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, ovarian, and stomach
• Cardiac defects
• Death
• Infertility for women, congenital disabilities, birth injuries, and miscarriages
• Neurobehavioral effects
• Parkinson’s disease
• Renal toxicity

Many of these issues develop over time, so you may not have connected your disease to toxic water exposure at Camp Lejeune until recently. The symptoms and illness severity victims experience varies, depending on several factors:

• How exposure occurred (surface exposure by touching or internal consumption)
• When the exposure took place
• How long the exposure lasted

If you were at Camp Lejeune and had these or other illnesses, you might qualify to receive compensation in a civil lawsuit against the Marine Corps. Contact Jason Stone Injury Lawyers for assistance.

If you meet the following qualifications, you may qualify to file a claim:

• You worked or lived at Camp Lejeune for 30 or more days from August 1953 to December 1987. This applies to service members, their families, and civilian personnel.
• You had exposure to the toxic water.
• Your mother was carrying you and met the first two criteria.
• You became ill with a disease caused by that exposure.

If you’re unsure about your eligibility, don’t wait. Better Phone Stone ®. Our personal injury law team knows the details of the Camp Lejeune Justice Act and can help determine if you qualify.

Affected people have two years to file a civil suit. The U.S. District Court: Eastern District of North Carolina will handle these suits in a consolidated mass tort. However, that doesn’t mean you must hire an attorney in North Carolina. Better to find a lawyer with a track record of successfully handling personal injury lawsuits.

A North Carolina law prevented many people from seeking compensation after exposure to toxic water at Camp Lejeune, but the Camp Lejeune Justice Act supersedes that law. If you or a loved one can prove certain things, you may now recover damages for things like:

• All medical expenses related to your disease or illness
• Lost wages or diminished earning capacity
• Permanent disability
• Loss of the ability to enjoy life
• Adverse effects on personal relationships
• Pain and suffering
• Expenses related to hiring a caregiver

The amount you can recover depends in part on how severely your disease affects you. Everyone affected won’t get the same amount of compensation. You’ll need several kinds of documentation to prove the extent of your economic and non-economic damages. Your attorney can help with this.

The first eligibility requirement is that you or your loved one was present at Camp Lejeune or MCAS New River for 30 or more days from August 1953 to December 1987. To prove that, you can use things like:

• Military records for yourself or an immediate family member if you lived with them on post
• Employment history
• School records
• Birth certificate

Next, you’ll need to show that you contracted a disease because of exposure to the toxic water and the economic damages you suffered. You may need to provide:

• Medical records detailing your illness
• Receipts for medical expenses, including hospital stays, surgeries, treatments, therapy, prescription medications, transportation costs, and necessary medical equipment
• Letters from your physicians describing your treatment
• Proof of nursing home or rehabilitative residential care

For non-economic damages like pain and suffering, the amount of compensation can depend on how severely your disease or illness impacted your life. Attorneys will discuss this with you and help you gather the proper types of evidence.

For instance, some of these situations are more serious than others and may qualify for more compensation:

• Being unable to work as a result of your disease
• Losing a child or having a child with life-long health conditions related to exposure to the toxic water
• Having a permanent disability
• Being inconvenienced by needing multiple surgeries and treatments
• A family member losing their life
• Developing a mild illness that goes away quickly

Because many of the illnesses caused by exposure to contaminated water don’t show up immediately, you might not know if yours is related to Camp Lejeune. If you were there during the period covered by the Camp Lejeune Justice Act and have an illness or disease that might qualify, contact Jason Stone Injury Lawyers. Our team can investigate your issues to see if you can file a claim.