government will pay federal benefits to children suffering from a birth defect associated with their parents' military service. Children with spina bifida, related to their parents' exposure to Agent Orange in the Vietnam War theater, are now eligible for compensation, according to a law signed ...
In 1997, the US Ambassador to Vietnam questioned the availability of scientific evidence to establish the “exact consequences of Agent Orange” (Ha Thang, 1997). In early 2000, the Vietnamese government formally introduced the AO Central Payments Programme. Compensation consists of monthly payments...
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At this stage of the litigation, it appears that the facts are closer to the former hypothetical than the latter. Defendants contend,inter alia,that the government failed, by deliberately omitting a warning label, to properly instruct those who sprayed Agent Orange as to its use and failed to ...
their exposure to Agent Orange. According to theVeterans Administration(VA) any service member who served in Vietnam “between January 9, 1962 and May 7, 1975” is automatically assumed by the federal government to have come into contact with either Agent Orang...
Gov’t launches Agent Orange probe Officials from the Ministry of Environment and other government offices yesterday visit Camp Carroll in Chilgok, North Gyeongsang, where U.S. Forces Korea allegedly buried a large amount of the highly toxic defoliant Agent Orange, which was used during the Viet...
Agent Orange III- Year(s) not available Super Orange- Operation Ranch Hand, Vietnam 1961-1971 The above information is from: Wikipedia - Agent Orange|Wikipedia - Rainbow Herbidices|History - Agent Orange More Information For the purposes of VA compensation benefits, veterans who served anywhere ...
has upheld the dismissal of lawsuits by Vietnam War veterans who want compensation for injuries caused by exposure to agent orange during the war and by Vietnamese citizens who want the chemical companies that made agent orange to compensate them for health problems thought to be caused by it....
American and Vietnamese plaintiffs have filed numerous lawsuits in U.S. courts seeking compensation for exposure to Agent Orange. To protect itself from claims of wrongdoing, the U.S. government has used the doctrine ofsovereign immunity, which dictates that a government can't be sued, eve...
A key official who helps adjudicate claims by veterans who say they were exposed to Agent Orange has downplayed the risks of the chemical herbicide and questioned the findings of scientists, journalists and a federal administrative tribunal that conflict with his views. Jim Sampsel, a lead ...