Camp Lejeune News

If a preliminary claim for injuries or diagnoses related to Camp Lejeune Water Contamination is denied by the Judge Advocate General (JAG) of the Navy’s Tort Claims Unit (TCU), the claim will need to be substantiated.  Substantiating a claim may turn out to be very […]

The process to file a Camp Lejeune Water Contamination claim is unique from any other mass tort litigation: it is part administrative and part judicial, requiring a keen oversight from lawyers handling cases for victims.  In this blog, we discuss the administrative portion of the […]

Exposure to toxic water at Camp Lejeune has been linked to an increased risk of Neurobehavioral Effects, especially for people who drank the contaminated water as children or were exposed to water in-utero.

Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune is a 246-square-mile military training facility in Jacksonville, North Carolina. From 1953 to 1987, the water supply at Camp Lejeune was contaminated by a variety of dangerous chemicals, including TCE (trichloroethylene), PCE (tetrachloroethylene, also called perchloroethylene), vinyl chloride, and benzene. […]

Camp Lejeune is a Marine Corps base in Jacksonville, North Carolina. For more than 30 years, from about 1953 to 1987, the water supply at Camp Lejeune was contaminated with harmful chemicals that have the potential to cause serious health conditions, including certain types of […]

Hundreds of thousands of veterans, their family members, and civilian workers who served and lived at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina from 1953 to 1987 were exposed to contaminated water containing harmful chemicals. Tragically, many of those who were exposed to the contaminated water on […]

Camp Geiger is a Marine Corps base that is part of a larger base, Camp Lejeune, though the two camps are not geographically connected. Camp Geiger is located in Jacksonville, North Carolina, approximately 10 miles south of the main camp. The United States Marine Corps […]

From 1953 to 1987, the drinking water at Camp Lejeune, a major Marine Corps base in Jacksonville, North Carolina, was contaminated with dangerous chemicals that have the potential to cause certain types of cancer and other serious health conditions. What Chemicals Were Contaminating the Water […]