PFAS Contamination Lawyer

PFAS are a large family of manufactured chemicals used since the 1940s to make products repel water, grease, heat and stains. The carbon-fluorine bond that makes them so effective also makes them extraordinarily persistent — they do not meaningfully degrade in the environment or in the body, which is why they are commonly called "forever chemicals."

Because they accumulate, exposure that happened years ago can still be relevant today.

No. That is a common misunderstanding. Military firefighting training sites are well-known contamination sources because of AFFF foam, but they are far from the only route.

Municipal water supplies, private wells near industrial or airport sites, civilian firefighting, and certain manufacturing jobs are all potential exposure pathways. Residents of affected communities may have claims without any military connection at all.

Published research has associated PFAS exposure with kidney and testicular cancer, liver, bladder, pancreatic and thyroid cancers, blood cancers, thyroid disease, ulcerative colitis, and pregnancy complications including preeclampsia and low birth weight.

Association is not the same as proof of causation in an individual case. Whether your diagnosis supports a claim depends on your exposure history, the timing, and the medical evidence — which is what an evaluation is for.

Often you would not, which is the heart of the problem. Useful starting points are where you have lived and whether that water system has been tested for PFAS, whether you worked in firefighting, aviation, manufacturing or chemical processing, and whether you lived near a military installation, airport, industrial plant or landfill.

Part of our work is establishing exposure from water testing data, employment records and site histories — you are not expected to prove it yourself before calling.

Deadlines in these cases are complicated. They can turn on when you were diagnosed and when you reasonably should have connected the illness to an exposure, rather than simply when the exposure occurred — and different states apply different rules.

Because the analysis is genuinely fact-specific and the consequence of waiting is losing the claim entirely, do not try to work this out from a website. Call 850-215-2195 and have your dates reviewed.

Nothing. The case evaluation is free, and PFAS claims are handled on a contingency basis — you pay no attorney's fee unless compensation is recovered for you.