The Camp LejeuneJustice Act of 2022 is a bipartisan bill intended to ensure that individuals – veterans, their family members or other individuals living or working at the base between 1953 and 1987 – who were harmed by water contamination at Camp Lejeune receive fair compensation. Many of these individuals have had their claims inappropriately denied or delayed, resulting in additional harm.
The Bill is making its way through Congress as part of the Honoring Our PACT Act of 2022, which passed the U.S. House of Representatives on March 4, 2022. The Act will permit people who worked, lived, or were exposed in-utero, to contaminated water at Camp Lejeune between 1953 and 1987, to file a claim in U.S. federal court.
People or loved ones of those who lived, worked, or were stationed at Camp Lejeune who experienced a water toxicity-related illness may be eligible for compensation.
The legislation will remove legal barriers that have unfairly denied Camp Lejeune families their day in court. If it passes, they will be able to file lawsuits in the district court for the Eastern District of North Carolina.
Senator Tillis, who is a member of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs and Judiciary Committees, co-sponsored The Janey Ensminger Act in 2019 to provide VA medical care for Marines and their families who have been exposed to toxic water at Camp Lejeune. The Camp Lejeune Justice Act gives those families and individuals the same opportunity to pursue compensation in court that other U.S. citizens are guaranteed.
Our attorneys has a history of standing with veterans whose lives and rights have been trampled on by corporate greed. We believe it is unacceptable for those who fight for our country to be treated with indifference or worse when it comes to their most basic health and safety.
We are pleased the bill has passed.
In step with the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), multiple contamination sources were identified. They enclosed waste disposal sites and underground storage tanks. The toxic compounds found at Camp Lejeune are cited as Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), and that they form up product love degreasers and dry-cleaning solvents.
A dry-cleaning company in the area victimized such solvents, that finished up contaminating the groundwater. The encircling areas additionally had waste disposal sites and industrial spills that contributed to the contamination. The ATSDR says that water wells provision the bottom surpassed its set limits. The contamination was initial discovered in 1982, though it took over 3 years for the wells to be shut down.
Later studies showed there are quite seventy alternative chemicals that caused health risks. The foremost dangerous and current of those were as follows: