If you or a loved one were exposed to contaminated drinking water at Camp Lejeune between 1953 and 1987, you may be entitled to significant compensation.
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Camp Lejeune Water Contamination Claims
Any individual – including U.S. Military Veterans and their families – who served, worked, or resided at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, N.C., between 1953 and 1987 may have come into contact with contaminated drinking water linked to severe medical conditions, and may be eligible for health benefits and disability compensation.
In the early 1980s, two water-supply systems at Camp Lejeune were found to be contaminated with a group of chemicals known as “volatile organic compounds.” These chemicals – such as Trichloroethylene (a metal cleaner), Tetrachloroethylene (a dry cleaning agent), Benzene (a chemical often used in gasoline), Methylene chloride (a chemical solvent used in labs and to remove paint), and Vinyl chloride (a colorless gas used to make polyvinyl chloride and plastic products) – were found to have infiltrated the drinking water.
Up to one million military members, military staff, and military family members and other individuals at Camp Lejeune were exposed to the chemicals in this contaminated water (CDC).
Types of Cancers and Other Severe Medical Conditions Linked to Contaminated Camp Lejeune Drinking Water:
- Esophageal cancer
- Breast cancer
- Kidney cancer
- Lung cancer
- Bladder cancer
- Renal toxicity
- Multiple myeloma
- Female infertility
- Miscarriage
- Scleroderma
- Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
- Leukemia
- Myelodysplastic syndrome
- Hepatic steatosis
- Neurobehavioral effects
How Cory Watson Attorneys Can Help with Your Claim
Cory Watson Attorneys has decades of experience handling thousands of dangerous chemical lawsuits, including a history of successfully handling – and obtaining for – drinking water contamination cases similar to the claims from Camp Lejeune. For more than 30 years, Cory Watson has litigated, settled, and worked on large-scale water contamination cases, including those involving Fortune 500 companies. We’ve represented individual and community plaintiffs who resided in more than a dozen states. Our team of attorneys and legal professionals have experience with the science and medical issues that are critical to these cases and that will be present at Camp Lejeune.
Cory Watson Attorneys also has a long history of representing military veterans and their families and has thousands of present and former military personnel as clients.
We believe you shouldn’t have to pay for recovering from a medical condition caused from somebody else’s negligence. Our legal team is ready to help you get the compensation you deserve for the suffering you have gone through.
ABOUT CORY WATSON ATTORNEYS
Cory Watson Attorneys is a nationally recognized personal injury law firm with offices in Birmingham, Alabama as well as Memphis, and Nashville, Tennessee. The firm has recovered more than $3 billion for clients across the country. Cory Watson Attorneys are frequently at the forefront of major class actions and multidistrict litigations involving environmental contamination cases or product liability related to serious injuries from defective products and are often appointed to leadership positions in national cases. Firm practice areas include Personal Injury, Product Liability, Class Action, Asbestos, Business & Commercial Litigation, Dangerous Pharmaceuticals, Defective Medical Devices, and Environmental/Toxic Torts.