Participating in the Early Eligibility Program will not impact your VA benefits, nor will they claim any offset. Filing a claim under the Honoring Our PACT Act of 2022 will not affect your current or future entitlement to VA benefits. However, any disability payment or benefit awarded not subject to the Early Eligibility Program will be offset by the amount of any award received.

There’s a special claim form that must be filled out promptly and accurately to preserve your rights. Fil Six months after the claim form is submitted we will file your claim in Court.

The Camp Lejeune lawyers at Brown, LLC will help gather your records for you at our expense. The Act provides for you to just show your injury and establish that you were there, which we will assist in doing as well.

The lawyers of Brown, LLC are only paid if they win your case.  If we don’t prevail you don’t owe us a thing.

Speak with a Camp Lejeune contaminated water law firm like the seasoned law firm of Brown, LLC, which represents clients all over the country for more than 25 years under the leadership of a former FBI Special Agent with hundreds of millions in settlements and judgments.

Just provide information about your service to the best of your recollection and your attorneys will assist every step of the way.

Generally, the commitment from you the client is very minimal. We will speak with you and obtain information about your service and where you were stationed and your injuries. If you think you were stationed there, but not sure, we will send away for your records. If it turns out you weren’t there during the time frame, you don’t owe us anything for our work?

If you retain our firm then we can gather the military records and find out.

No. There is no settlement at this point. Legislation has passed allowing cases to proceed, but any reference to a settlement is outright false at this point.

No. From a legal perspective it’s not considered a class action although the public may colloquially refer to it as one and it may have some characteristics of one. It is considered a mass tort and in mass torts the injured receive the bulk of the settlement if the case is resolved. If general liability is established each individual claimant is entitled to their own day in court compared to a class action where the whole cases rises and falls with one potential trial.

If there is a Camp Lejeune Contaminated Water Settlement in the future, sometimes a mass tort will settle with a matrix of values depending on things like injury, length of exposure and other risks that could have led to the condition.

Yes, if you were stationed at Camp Lejeune for longer than 30 days during the 1953-1987 time frame. There’s no guarantee you will win, of course, and smoking may negatively affect the amount of any recovery, but our firm Brown, LLC will still represent smokers as long as they were stationed at Camp Lejeune.

Right now, there is no Camp Lejeune settlement in place, so it’s hard to forecast what money if any you will be able to obtain and anyone who tells you differently is not talking to you straight. Damages in these types of cases will generally be determined measuring them against damages in other cases that resolved and factoring in liability and other risk factors.

The Elective Option (EO) is an administrative process established to simplify compensation for veterans who were exposed to contaminated water at Camp Lejeune and subsequently developed specific illnesses. It operates independently of the traditional lawsuit framework, offering a more direct route to compensation for eligible veterans.

If you were at Camp Lejeune for over 30 days and were diagnosed with any of the following you would qualify for the elective option: – kidney cancer, liver cancer, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, leukemia and bladder cancer, multiple myeloma, Parkinson’s disease, kidney disease (end stage renal disease), systemic sclerosis/systemic scleroderma.

Here are the Camp Lejeune settlement values for the Elective Option:

Kidney Cancer stationed at Camp Lejeune from 30 to 364 days = $150,000.
Kidney Cancer stationed at Camp Lejeune from one to five years = $300,000.
Kidney Cancer stationed at Camp Lejeune for over five years = $450,000.
Kidney Cancer stationed at Camp Lejeune from 30 to 364 days plus passing on from the condition = $250,000.
Kidney Cancer stationed at Camp Lejeune from one to five years plus passing on from the condition = $400,000.
Kidney Cancer stationed at Camp Lejeune for over five years plus passing on from the condition = $550,000.

Liver Cancer stationed at Camp Lejeune from 30 to 364 days = $150,000.
Liver Cancer stationed at Camp Lejeune from one to five years = $300,000.
Liver Cancer stationed at Camp Lejeune for over five years = $450,000.
Liver Cancer stationed at Camp Lejeune from 30 to 364 days plus passing on from the condition = $250,000.
Liver Cancer stationed at Camp Lejeune from one to five years plus passing on from the condition = $400,000.
Liver Cancer stationed at Camp Lejeune for over five years plus passing on from the condition = $550,000.

Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (NHL) stationed at Camp Lejeune from 30 to 364 days = $150,000.
Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (NHL) stationed at Camp Lejeune from one to five years = $300,000.
Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (NHL) stationed at Camp Lejeune for over five years = $450,000.
Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (NHL) C stationed at Camp Lejeune from 30 to 364 days plus passing on from the condition = $250,000.
Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (NHL) stationed at Camp Lejeune from one to five years plus passing on from the condition = $400,000.
Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (NHL) stationed at Camp Lejeune for over five years plus passing on from the condition = $550,000.

Leukemia stationed at Camp Lejeune from 30 to 364 days = $150,000.
Leukemia stationed at Camp Lejeune from one to five years = $300,000.
Leukemia stationed at Camp Lejeune for over five years = $450,000.
Leukemia stationed at Camp Lejeune from 30 to 364 days plus passing on from the condition = $250,000.
Leukemia stationed at Camp Lejeune from one to five years plus passing on from the condition = $400,000.
Leukemia stationed at Camp Lejeune for over five years plus passing on from the condition = $550,000.

Bladder Cancer stationed at Camp Lejeune from 30 to 364 days = $150,000.
Bladder Cancer stationed at Camp Lejeune from one to five years = $300,000.
Bladder Cancer stationed at Camp Lejeune for over five years = $450,000.
Bladder Cancer stationed at Camp Lejeune from 30 to 364 days plus passing on from the condition = $250,000.
Bladder Cancer stationed at Camp Lejeune from one to five years plus passing on from the condition = $400,000.
Bladder Cancer stationed at Camp Lejeune for over five years plus passing on from the condition = $550,000.

Multiple Myeloma stationed at Camp Lejeune from 30 to 364 days = $100,000.
Multiple Myeloma stationed at Camp Lejeune from one to five years = $250,000.
Multiple Myeloma stationed at Camp Lejeune for over five years = $400,000.
Multiple Myeloma stationed at Camp Lejeune from 30 to 364 days plus passing on from the condition = $200,000.
Multiple Myeloma stationed at Camp Lejeune from one to five years plus passing on from the condition = $350,000.
Multiple Myeloma stationed at Camp Lejeune for over five years plus passing on from the condition = $500,000.

Parkinson’s Disease stationed at Camp Lejeune from 30 to 364 days = $100,000.
Parkinson’s Disease stationed at Camp Lejeune from one to five years = $250,000.
Parkinson’s Disease stationed at Camp Lejeune for over five years = $400,000.
Parkinson’s Disease stationed at Camp Lejeune from 30 to 364 days plus passing on from the condition = $200,000.
Parkinson’s Disease stationed at Camp Lejeune from one to five years plus passing on from the condition = $350,000.
Parkinson’s Disease stationed at Camp Lejeune for over five years plus passing on from the condition = $500,000.

Kidney Disease (End Stage Renal Disease) stationed at Camp Lejeune from 30 to 364 days = $100,000.
Kidney Disease (End Stage Renal Disease) stationed at Camp Lejeune from one to five years = $250,000.
Kidney Disease (End Stage Renal Disease) stationed at Camp Lejeune for over five years = $400,000.
Kidney Disease (End Stage Renal Disease) stationed at Camp Lejeune from 30 to 364 days plus passing on from the condition = $200,000.
Kidney Disease (End Stage Renal Disease) stationed at Camp Lejeune from one to five years plus passing on from the condition = $350,000.
Kidney Disease (End Stage Renal Disease) stationed at Camp Lejeune for over five years plus passing on from the condition = $500,000.

Systemic Sclerosis/Systemic Scleroderma stationed at Camp Lejeune from 30 to 364 days = $100,000.
Systemic Sclerosis/Systemic Scleroderma stationed at Camp Lejeune from one to five years = $250,000.
Systemic Sclerosis/Systemic Scleroderma stationed at Camp Lejeune for over five years = $400,000.
Systemic Sclerosis/Systemic Scleroderma stationed at Camp Lejeune from 30 to 364 days plus passing on from the condition = $200,000.
Systemic Sclerosis/Systemic Scleroderma stationed at Camp Lejeune from one to five years plus passing on from the condition = $350,000.
Systemic Sclerosis/Systemic Scleroderma stationed at Camp Lejeune for over five years plus passing on from the condition = $500,000.