Articles Posted in Camp Lejeune

Our lawyers are handling Camp Lejeune cancer lawsuits in all 50 states.  This page is about a particular type of cancer: multiple myeloma at Camp Lejeune.  We look at how multiple myeloma is linked to contaminated water and our attorneys speculate about potential settlement amounts for these cancer lawsuits.

From the 1950s thru the late 1980s the water supply at the USMC base, Camp Lejeune in North Carolina was contaminated with alarmingly high levels of chemical solvents that have been linked to cancer. In the years since this was discovered, numerous public health studies have been done to determine what this contamination did to the health of the estimated 1 million people that were exposed to the water at Camp Lejeune.

These studies have identified clear evidence that exposure to the contaminated water at Lejeune caused an increased risk of multiple myeloma and other lymphohematopoietic cancers.  Specifically, it is well understood that both benzene and trichloroethylene (TCE) – two toxins that contaminated the water at Camp Lejuene – cause multiple myeloma. There is evidence that another ubiquitous toxin at Camp Lejuene – perchloroethylene (PCE) – may also cause multiple myeloma.

Our attorneys are currently seeking victims seeking to file a Camp Lejeune cancer lawsuit in all 50 states.  Anyone who lived or worked at Camp Lejeune before 1988 and was subsequently diagnosed with hepatic steatosis (fatty liver disease) may be entitled to compensation under a new federal law.

On this page, we provide:

1. A summary of the water contamination at Camp Lejeune

Understandably, victims want to know how much their Camp Lejeune settlement might be.  Any injury victim or wrongful death survivor has this settlement question in any case.  But it is even more pronounced here because settlement amounts are a greater mystery.  We have a sample size of one for these one-of-a-kind lawsuits.

Some lawyers online post settlement amount projections.  Truth be told, most are doing it because they see our law firm doing it. It is a copycat industry.  But they do not explain the thinking behind their settlement payout predictions (often because they have no thinking).

This post is about including you in our thinking on settlement amounts and, just as importantly, how we think the government will determine settlement offers. It is a bit of a limb because no one knows how the Camp Lejeune lawsuits will play out.  But history typically repeats itself so we will look for patterns and how they might repeat themselves in this context.