If you lived or worked at Camp Lejeune between 1953 and 1987 and were later diagnosed with a qualifying illness, you may qualify for compensation.
Between 1953 and 1987, the water supply at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina was contaminated with industrial solvents and other toxic chemicals. The Camp Lejeune Justice Act of 2022 created a path for those exposed to file claims for resulting illnesses.
This litigation is unusual in that it runs through both an administrative claims process (the Elective Option) and traditional lawsuits, and involves an exceptionally large number of potential claimants.
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More than 285,000 administrative claims have been filed in total, with tens of thousands more filed in just the past several weeks as of this writing. Roughly 3,700+ lawsuits have also been filed as of May 2026. Four federal judges overseeing the litigation appointed two settlement masters to speed up claim resolution, and the Department of Justice has approved over $691 million in settlement offers to 2,353 claimants under the Elective Option program, with about 1,554 accepted so far. No bellwether trial verdicts have been reached yet to establish broader settlement values.
The Elective Option is a faster, administrative settlement process created alongside the lawsuit process — it offers set payment tiers based on your diagnosis in exchange for resolving your claim without going to trial. It's an alternative to (not the same as) filing a traditional lawsuit, and which path makes sense depends on your specific situation.
The first Camp Lejeune Justice Act trial began October 26, 2026 in federal court in Elizabeth City, N.C. — a bench trial over former Marine Frank Mousser's kidney cancer claim. It comes as plaintiffs' leadership proposed a 25-disease claimant census, the government asked for a Lone Pine evidence order, and an October 30 settlement-framework deadline approaches.
Read more →At a Greenville, N.C., rally, President Trump tied fast settlement of remaining Camp Lejeune Justice Act claims to Republicans holding Congress in the midterms. Advocates and lawmakers objected, and attorneys noted payouts come from the permanent federal Judgment Fund, as the first trials begin in Elizabeth City.
Read more →On October 1, 2026, Chief Judge Richard Myers denied a motion challenging how the DOJ calculated a Camp Lejeune Elective Option offer, holding that program-wide disputes belong on the master docket. The court did not decide whether the offers were calculated correctly.
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