“We are concerned about the significant attorney advertising targeting veterans and veteran families because of the law that passed this summer,” said Hamilton County Commissioner and Carmel attorney Christine Altman. “Personal injury attorneys typically charge up to 40 percent of the recovery received. That’s money that could be going to the recovery of those suffering from serious illness instead.”
Other types of compensation that you can seek include pain and suffering and loss of enjoyment of life. Pain and suffering refer to the physical and emotional toll your injury has taken on your quality of life. Loss of enjoyment of life is a similar type of award often awarded to people who suffer permanent injuries that cause them to be confined to a wheelchair or bed.
Your Northern Arizona VA Health Care System is reminding and encouraging local Veterans who served during the Vietnam Era, the Gulf War, or in post-9/11 conflicts to inquire about additional benefits or care through the PACT Act, a historic new law that will help VA deliver care to millions of Veterans affected by burn pits and other toxic exposures.
“They were talking about ATSDR, the public health assessment, that they wanted to do more studies on the children that were exposed at Camp Lejeune in utero. And they primarily wanted to do studies on those kids for birth defects and childhood cancers, and they said primarily leukemia,” he said, “I had a plate of spaghetti in my hand and when they said that I dropped it on my living room floor.”
On Saturday, dozens of marine veterans and their families gathered at the American Legion in Wilmington to hear Partain and others speak about the toxins present in Camp Lejeune’s water for decades, causing a range of health conditions in those who consumed it, most notably leukemia and other types of cancer.