EEOICPA and RECA Claim Assistance

The Department of Labor also issues a medical treatment card to all qualifying Employees that covers all treatment arising out of the covered condition and provides benefits that far exceed those offered by Medicare. These include 24 hour nursing care that allows certain workers to avoid nursing homes and live at home even after they become ill.

The attorneys at Stephens & Stephens, LLP have handled hundreds of these EEOICPA claims from across the country and can assist you as you work through the claims filing process.

We are also available to assist with Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) claims. More information about RECA, passeed in 1990 upon a Congressional finding that the United States should recognize and assume responsibility for the harm done to individuals who developed certain cancers and other diseases following employment in the uranium industry or following exposure to radiation released during atmospheric nuclear tests, can be found below the following EEOICPA Facility List.

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Below is a complete list of the facilities covered by the program, organized by state. The name of each facility links to a page describing that site in more detail. Facilities with Special Exposure Cohort (SEC) classes appear in bold.These classes describe atomic weapons manufacturing facilities where, for one reason or another, it is not possible to determine Workers’ exposures to radiation through the Dose Reconstruction process. These facilities, therefore, have been assigned SEC classes for periods of time when they were operational but lacking complete documentation of working conditions. Workers who, after working at a Special Exposure Cohort facility, later contracted one of 22 radiogenic cancers including: lung, bone, kidney, breast, colon, and leukemia, are entitled to $150,000 and can also qualify for an additional $250,000 from the program which is operated by the United States Department of Labor.

Whether you or a family member worked on Long Island at the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), in Washington State on the Hanford reservation, in Colorado at the Rocky Flats facility, at the Iowa National Laboratory (INL), at the Nevada Test Site, or in Buffalo, New York at the Bethlehem Steel plant, Stephens & Stephens can assist you with your claim.

While there is no filing deadline, the legislation is re-authorized every fiscal year and is vulnerable to budget cuts. Certain benefits are forfeited if the claim is not processed prior to the worker’s death and the claim process can be time-consuming. Historic medical and employment evidence can be difficult to obtain as medical providers and employers destroy old records. So don’t wait.

If you or a loved one became ill after working at a nuclear facility, even if that loved one died years ago, call the attorneys at Stephens & Stephens, LLP right now.

Counsel fees are regulated by statute and the fees associated with an initial claim are limited to 2% of the lump sum compensation received by the worker or surviving family member. No counsel fees are payable except out of the compensation paid to the claimant by the Department of Labor.