Lawyers Face New Caps on Fees in Camp Lejeune Toxic Water Cases

The US government is attempting to block lawyers from collecting what could be hundreds of millions of dollars in fees from the Camp Lejeune toxic water cases, months after critics in Congress had unsuccessfully tried to pass legislation to cap them.

Nine days after announcing an early resolution program to help expedite compensation for veterans and others sickened by the contamination, the departments of the Navy and Justice amended it to add the legal fee limits.

That new guidance, updated and posted on Friday, says plaintiffs’ attorneys can collect only 20% of the administrative settlements and 25% of the ...