On August 10, 2022, President Biden signed the Camp Lejeune Justice Act of 2022, a bipartisan bill allowing people to bring claims for compensation if they were exposed to contaminated water at U.S. Marine Corps Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina between 1953 and 1987.

The Camp Lejeune Justice Act allows you to file a claim for compensation if you spent at least 30 days at Camp Lejeune between August 1, 1953, and December 31, 1987, whether as a Marine, a military family member, or a civilian worker. During those years much of the drinking and bathing water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated with highly toxic chemicals, including trichloroethylene (TCE), tetrachloroethylene (PCE), vinyl chloride, and benzene.

This toxic water could have caused injuries including kidney cancer, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, leukemia, liver cancer, bladder cancer, birth defects (particularly cardiac defects), multiple myeloma, Parkinson’s disease, end-stage renal (kidney) disease, and systemic sclerosis/scleroderma.

There is a 2-year window to file a claim for compensation with the Navy, ending on August 10, 2024. We strongly recommend contacting an attorney to help you file your claim (at no cost to you unless you receive a monetary recovery), because the information you provide the Navy may limit what you can seek in a lawsuit.

If the Navy denies or does not respond to that claim within 6 months, the new law permits you to bring a lawsuit even if you previously had a similar lawsuit dismissed. The new law creates unique rules making it easier to prove that the contaminated water caused your disease, and preventing the government from claiming that too much time has passed or that it is immune from lawsuits.

We know veterans may sometimes have a strong feeling that they are supposed to sacrifice for their country without complaint. In this case, the government has recognized that it exposed people at Camp Lejeune to unsafe water and it has chosen to allow affected people to seek compensation through this unique claim.

If you were at Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, NC between 1953 and 1987 and you believe you have been injured by exposure to toxic water, we urge you to contact a lawyer at Lieff Cabraser today about your case and potential recovery. Your claim must be filed by August 10, 2024 (within two years of the Camp LeJeune Justice Act), so the sooner you contact us the sooner we can help you seek justice.

If you were at Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, NC between 1953 and 1987 and you believe you have been injured by exposure to toxic water, we urge you to contact a lawyer at Lieff Cabraser today about your case and potential recovery. Your claim must be filed by August 10, 2024 (within two years of the Camp LeJeune Justice Act), so the sooner you contact us the sooner we can help you seek justice.

With over 120 lawyers in offices across the United States and Europe, Lieff Cabraser has been a leader in environmental exposure injury cases for 50 years, including representing hundreds of thousands of Americans harmed by poisoned water, coal ash, and other industrial contaminants, radiation exposure, food and drug contaminants, and toxic spills and other environmental catastrophes. Our work on behalf of injured clients has led to settlements and judgments of over $75 billion in environmental contamination and mass tort injury cases.

There is no charge or obligation for our review of your Camp Lejeune water contamination injury claim, and all information you provide will be held in the strictest confidence.