VA Disability Lawyers Assisting Veterans in Toms River, NJ

Pursuing a Toxic Exposure Claim

Few places in the country know the cost of contamination as intimately as Toms River, where decades of chemical dumping reached the local water supply. Veterans exposed to toxins here, at a military base, or anywhere during their service who later grew seriously ill may be owed compensation.

• Ciba-Geigy (Toms River Chemical) site: For decades this Oak Ridge Parkway dye and resin plant discharged solvents and heavy metals that tainted the local groundwater, contamination later tied to the town’s childhood cancer cluster and now a long-running federal Superfund cleanup. Anyone who lived or served nearby and later fell ill may have an exposure worth reviewing.
• Reich Farm (Pleasant Plains): Chemical drums illegally dumped on this Toms River property leaked trichloroethylene and other solvents into the Parkway well field, a second source behind the local cancer cluster and documented in its own EPA Superfund record.
• Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst (its Lakehurst section sits roughly ten miles northwest, in Ocean County): Years of firefighting-foam use saturated the groundwater with the long-lasting compounds PFOS and PFOA, alongside solvents and munitions residue. Veterans stationed at Lakehurst who later developed a related illness should have it examined.
• Naval Weapons Station Earle (about twenty miles northeast in Monmouth County): Weapons handling and firefighting foam left solvents, heavy metals, and PFAS compounds in the soil and water, with some wells measuring above state and federal limits.

If your service put you in contact with any of these sites, or another base since connected to pollution, and you now carry a related diagnosis, an earlier denial is not the end of the road. Time and again our attorneys have tied a veteran’s illness to the contamination behind it and won the benefits that followed. We can do the same for you.

Do You Need a VA Disability Lawyer?

Like most veterans, you probably started on this path alone. But once the VA denies you or returns a rating that ignores how hard you actually struggle, you need an experienced attorney on your side.

Guiding veterans through a process that can feel deliberately tangled is the reason our firm exists. When a claim fails due to missing evidence or a VA error, we dig into the file, find the weak point, and put it back on track. We have done this for thousands of veterans around the country, and we would consider it an honor to take on the same fight for the Toms River community.

VA disability law never stops moving, from fresh agency policy to new decisions in the appeals courts, we stay on top of all of it so we can pursue the larger ratings, the unemployability benefits, and the extra compensation that may be yours. When your rating sits too low, or the VA refuses you outright, we are prepared to push back.

A review of your claim costs you nothing, and our fee is contingent on winning your appeal. If the VA has closed the door on you, let us help you pry it open again.