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Pursuing Justice for Camp Lejeune Claims

Servicemembers, civilian workers, and family members were exposed to cancer-causing chemicals in drinking water at Camp Lejeune between 1953 and 1987. If you at the base for as little as 30 days and developed cancer, renal diseases, or other diseases linked to the exposure, you may qualify for financial compensation.

Camp Lejeune Justice Act of 2022

Uncle Sam Finally Steps Up

After decades of litigation and advocacy groups fighting to spread the word on the toxic drinking water supplied to Marines, civilian workers, and families at Camp Lejeune for more than three decades, Congress passed a law setting aside time limits for claims and establishing procedures to obtain compensation for those with severe illnesses related to their time at Lejeune.

If you or a loved one spent time at Lejeune and were diagnosed with a severe illness that has been linked to the chemicals found in Lejeune’s water, such as cancer, infertility, fatty liver, renal (kidney) failure, or Parkinson’s disease, the government may cover your care and provide compensation.

Our experienced trial team stands ready to help guide you through the claims process, and if necessary, take the case to court.

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Claims Process

Step 1: Find Out If You Qualify

Veterans and their family members who spent more than 30 days at Lejeune or MCAS New River between August 1953 through December 1987 and were diagnosed with one of the following presumptively linked conditions may qualify for compensation:

Bladder cancer
Breast cancer
Esophageal cancer
Female infertility
Hepatic steatosis
Kidney cancer
Leukemia
Lung cancer
Miscarriage
Multiple myeloma
Myelodysplastic syndromes
Neurobehavioral effects
Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
Renal toxicity
Scleroderma

Step 2: File Your Administrative Claim With the Department of the Navy

Paperwork and administrative forms should be no surprise by now – there’s a form for everything in the Marines. The first step in your claim is to gather proof of your time at Lejeune and prepare your case with an attorney. Next, you’ll fill out the right forms and file them with the Navy. The paperwork has to be done right – you don’t want to give a pencil-pusher any excuse to deny your claim.

Step 3: Wait Up to Six Months

The new law gives the Department of the Navy up to six months to decide your claim. Given that they waited thirty years to admit culpability and allow claims, expect a big backlog and wait for your claim to be decided.

Step 4: Litigate

If the Navy denies your claim (or if after six months, they still have you in a holding pattern – which is considered the same as a denial), the next step is to file a lawsuit in federal court to get your claim in front of a judge. While litigation should be a last resort, the help of an experienced trial attorney such as David Proffitt or Ronald Cox can make all the difference when fighting for your compensation.

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Ron Cox

Ron Cox is a Columbia trial lawyer who focuses on the handling of personal injury and wrongful death cases, including those related to defective products, trucking accidents, prescription drugs, medical malpractice, and automobile collisions. Ron also handles other complex litigation, including class action cases and business litigation.

Columbia injury attorney Ron Cox grew up in Aiken, South Carolina, and he brings small town values to his law practice. If he represents you, he will get to know you personally, give you advice that you can trust, treat you with respect, and keep you informed about the progress of your case. In short, he will treat you the way he would want to be treated and will give your case his very best effort.

Experience Gaining Multi-Million Dollar Recoveries

Ron’s best effort has proved to be very successful for many clients that he has represented in the past. Ron has represented clients who have received multi-million dollar recoveries in cases involving trucking accidents, medical malpractice, and class action settlements. He has gotten successful results for clients who took defective drugs, were injured on the job, or were in serious car accidents. He has successfully represented large and small businesses in a variety of business disputes. Among the more rewarding cases that Ron has worked on were a trucking accident in which Ron helped obtain over $10,000,000 for the victims’ family, a $3,000,000 recovery in a medical malpractice action, and a $3,050,000 class action suit recovery for the residents of a community affected by the emissions of a nearby factory. He has helped obtain more than $30 Million in total recoveries for his clients.

Experience and Education

David Proffitt

David Proffitt is a trial lawyer who enjoys helping people who have been hurt by the negligent or wrongful acts of another person or company. He believes the civil justice system works as it should only when both parties – not just the one with more money – are represented by a determined, knowledgeable lawyer.

David’s practice focuses on the handling of personal injury and wrongful death cases, including those related to defective products, trucking accidents, prescription drugs, medical malpractice, automobile collisions, and on-the-job injuries. David also handles other complex litigation, including class action cases and business litigation.

David grew up in the mountains of western North Carolina, where the individual values of hard work, fair play and justice are still honored and taught. David soon learned those same values are shared by his fellow residents of the Palmetto State, where he has lived in the Greenville-Spartanburg, Charleston and Columbia areas since moving to South Carolina in 1988.

In private practice, David has worked at a small law firm and in a solo practice, where he represented individual plaintiffs in a wide variety of cases, including cases involving all types of personal injury, catastrophic injury, medical malpractice, product liability and workers compensation. David has helped injured persons win multi-million dollar verdicts or settlements.

If David represents you, he will get to know you personally, give you advice that you can trust, treat you with respect, and keep you informed about the progress of your case. In short, he will treat you the way he would want to be treated if he was the client, and he will give your case his very best effort.

David also has worked at one of the premier defense law firms in South Carolina. He represented Fortune 500 companies and Columbia area businesses – including financial institutions, hospital systems and insurance companies – in class action lawsuits, complex civil litigation and appeals. David gained firsthand experience about the strategies the legal teams at these companies will attempt to use when defending against class action lawsuits, mass tort litigation and other disputes. This experience aids his work protecting the rights of individuals living in the Carolinas whose cases involve these same types of businesses.

David graduated from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1996. Following graduation, he served as a law clerk at the South Carolina Supreme Court, where he clerked for the Honorable John H. Waller, Jr., and the Honorable E.C. Burnett, III. David also worked as a staff attorney at the Supreme Court. At the University of South Carolina School of Law, David taught legal writing, analysis and research to first-year law students.

Before attending law school, David worked several years as a newspaper reporter, writing about all types of people and events. David was a reporter for the Spartanburg Herald-Journal (SC), the Summerville Journal Scene (SC) and the Morganton News Herald (NC). David wrote about crime stories, trials, local government, hospitals and healthcare issues and environmental issues, to name only a few. As a reporter, David had the privilege of meeting people from all walks of life, and writing about the events affecting their lives on a daily basis.

Don't Wait Until It's Too Late

Delays in pursuing your case could mean missed deadlines that prevent your claim entirely, not to mention lost records and additional financial turmoil for you and your family.

Contingency fees are calculated based upon the gross amount recovered. Case costs paid by the firm are also reimbursed to the firm from the amount recovered. In most cases, the client will not be responsible for case costs if there is no recovery. Our agreement regarding fees and expenses applicable to your specific case will be provided in writing.

Any result our lawyers may have achieved on behalf of clients in other matters does not necessarily indicate similar results can be obtained for other clients. Each case must stand on its own merit based upon the facts and the law. Some cases referenced were handled by our attorneys while working at other firms, and in some cases, other lawyers participated in the representation of a client.