Attorney Bill Kohlburn serves as Of Counsel at Simmons Hanly Conroy. With nearly 30 years of legal experience, he concentrates his practice on appeals, motions and defendant discovery. He attended the University of Illinois and graduated from Washington University School of Law in 1987. Licensed ...
was exposed to toxic burn pits. While Mr. Biden warned he is not certain a burn pit caused hisson's fatal brain cancer, or the diseases that have afflicted many other service members, he committed during the State of the Union to "find out everything we can." ...
For every soldier returning with horrific health defects, there are untold numbers of servicemembers who continue to be subjected to burn pit sites and toxic smoke to this day. The DoD and VA must acknowledge the reality and gravity of the problems toxic chemicals from burn...
From 2007 to 2018, the VA processed 11,581 disability compensation claims that had "at least one condition related to burn pit exposure," a department spokesman toldThe New York Timeslast year. But the department only accepted 2,318 of these claims. The department said the rest did not ...