If you were regularly exposed to AFFF firefighting foam and were later diagnosed with cancer, you may qualify for compensation.
Aqueous Film-Forming Foam (AFFF) has been used for decades by firefighters, the military, and airports to suppress fuel fires. AFFF contains PFAS chemicals, and lawsuits allege manufacturers knew of associated cancer risks and failed to warn the people regularly exposed to it.
This is one of the largest active mass-tort dockets in the country, driven largely by firefighters and military personnel with career-long occupational exposure.
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As of mid-2026, over 23,000 active lawsuits are pending in the AFFF MDL (MDL 2873) in the District of South Carolina. There is still no global personal-injury settlement. The personal-injury bellwether trial, originally set for October 2025, was postponed with no new date announced as of this writing, while the court has advanced scheduling in cases involving thyroid disease and ulcerative colitis alongside upcoming kidney-cancer bellwethers.
AFFF litigation is a specific, large-scale PFAS case type focused on people exposed through firefighting foam — mainly firefighters, military members, and airport personnel. It's part of the broader PFAS contamination landscape, but is tracked and litigated separately. See our general PFAS contamination page for the wider picture.
The federal AFFF firefighting foam MDL has grown to more than 23,000 pending cases, but a global personal-injury settlement still hasn't materialized as of mid-2026.
Read more →The first AFFF personal-injury bellwether trial, set for October 2025, was postponed after the court uncovered a backlog of unfiled cases, triggering a filing window and a surge of new claims.
Read more →A federal court gave final approval in 2024 to 3M's up-to-$10.3 billion settlement with public water utilities over PFAS contamination linked to AFFF firefighting foam, a track separate from personal-injury claims.
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