AFFF Settlement Calculator 2026: Estimate Potential Claim Value
Use the AFFF Settlement Calculator to organise firefighting foam exposure history, cancer diagnosis, treatment, medical expenses, lost income and the evidence that affects a PFAS injury claim.
- Organises occupational and environmental exposure history and duration.
- Captures the cancer or illness diagnosis and treatment course.
- Helps identify missing service, employment, water-testing and damages records.
- Separates the paid water-system settlements from unresolved injury claims.
Get Your AFFF Claim Estimate
Answer the guided questions using the most accurate exposure, diagnosis, treatment and damages information available.
Is the calculator estimate what I would receive?
No. It is a gross figure, and no personal injury settlement exists in this litigation to be paid from. Attorney fees, case expenses and lien repayment would all come out of any eventual allocation.
Does the VA cover this instead?
VA disability compensation and a civil claim are separate routes with separate criteria, and pursuing one does not automatically preclude the other. Where the VA funded treatment, it may have a reimbursement interest in any settlement.
How the AFFF Settlement Calculator Works
The calculator organises the facts most likely to matter in an initial claim review. Because no personal injury matrix exists, its output is a structured summary of your position rather than a prediction of any payout.
1. Record Your Exposure
Enter the setting — military installation, airport, municipal fire service, industrial site — and how long exposure lasted.
2. Enter the Diagnosis
Kidney cancer, testicular cancer, thyroid disease, ulcerative colitis and other conditions are treated differently in the bellwether structure.
3. Add Treatment and Loss
Surgery, chemotherapy, ongoing monitoring, medical bills, lost earnings and future care.
4. Review What Is Missing
The output highlights the service, employment and water-testing records an attorney will ask for.
Factors That Can Affect AFFF Settlement Value
Because no personal injury settlement matrix has been published, these are the factors the bellwether structure and comparable litigation suggest will drive value.
Diagnosed condition
The personal injury bellwether pool is built around four injuries: kidney cancer, testicular cancer, thyroid disease and ulcerative colitis.
Exposure setting
Military service, airport and municipal firefighting and industrial work document more readily than residential water exposure.
Exposure duration
Years of repeated occupational contact weigh more heavily than isolated or brief exposure.
Documented PFAS levels
Blood serum testing or documented contamination at the site of exposure strengthens the causal link.
Severity and outcome
Surgery, recurrence, permanent impairment, ongoing monitoring or death.
Alternative risk factors
Smoking, family history and other chemical exposures will be raised by the defence.
Evidence That Can Support a AFFF Claim
AFFF claims turn on documented exposure over time and a diagnosis within the recognised set of conditions. Service and employment records usually do more work here than medical records.
Service or Employment Records
Military service records, fire department employment history, airport or industrial assignments showing where and when you worked.
Requested from the National Personnel Records Center or a former employer.Exposure Documentation
Training logs, incident reports, equipment records or base contamination assessments.
Some military installations have published PFAS assessments.Diagnosis Records
Pathology or clinical records confirming kidney cancer, testicular cancer, thyroid disease, ulcerative colitis or another linked condition.
Requested from the treating hospital or specialist.PFAS Blood Testing
Serum PFAS levels where testing has been done, which can strengthen the causal link.
Ordered through a physician; not available retrospectively.Treatment Records
Surgery, chemotherapy, ongoing monitoring, recurrence and follow-up care.
Requested from each treating provider.Damages Documentation
Medical bills, insurance statements, lost earnings and future care costs.
Assembled from providers, insurers and employers.Where AFFF Litigation Stands in 2026
MDL 2873 is one of the largest environmental and product-liability proceedings in the country. Its water-contamination half has largely resolved. Its personal injury half has not.
The personal injury bellwether pool is built around four injuries — kidney cancer, testicular cancer, thyroid disease and ulcerative colitis. Until those cases are tried, neither side has the information needed to price a settlement of the injury claims.
AFFF Lawsuit Filing Deadlines
Limitation periods for AFFF injury claims vary by state and generally run from diagnosis, or from the point at which the connection between the diagnosis and PFAS exposure could reasonably have been discovered. Many claimants were exposed decades before diagnosis, so the discovery rule matters more here than in most litigation.
Claims brought by veterans and serving personnel may involve additional considerations, including federal claim procedures that run on their own timetable.
The absence of a personal injury settlement does not extend any deadline. A claim that expires before it is filed is worth nothing regardless of how strong the exposure history is.
AFFF Lawsuit, Settlement & Related Claim Resources
Why the Estimate Is Not the Cheque
Any figure this calculator produces, and any figure quoted in a news headline, is a gross number. Several deductions sit between a gross allocation and the money that reaches a claimant, and they are the same in every mass tort.
1. Gross allocation
What the claim is valued at, before anything is taken out.
2. Attorney fees and costs
The contingency fee plus case expenses, set out in the retainer agreement you sign at the start.
3. Liens and reimbursements
Health insurers, Medicare, Medicaid and the VA are repaid for cancer treatment they funded.
4. Net to claimant
What remains after fees, costs and lien resolution — and what actually arrives.
Lien resolution is usually the step that takes longest. Health insurers, and in many cases Medicare or Medicaid, have a right to be reimbursed out of a settlement for treatment they already paid for. Those amounts can frequently be reduced through a formal resolution process, but the process adds time — often months between an agreed figure and a distributed payment.
None of this is a reason not to bring a claim. It is a reason to read every AFFF figure you encounter as a gross number rather than a net one, and to ask about the fee structure and likely lien exposure early rather than late.
AFFF Settlement Calculator FAQ
How does the AFFF settlement calculator work?
It organises exposure history, diagnosis, treatment, expenses, wage loss and evidence into an educational summary. Because no personal injury settlement matrix exists, it cannot predict a payout.
Has AFFF settled?
The water contamination claims have. 3M, DuPont, Tyco and BASF all settled with public water systems. No settlement has been reached on individual personal injury claims, and no injury settlement fund exists.
What is the average AFFF settlement per person?
There is no average. Figures such as $150,000 to $500,000 for kidney cancer claims are analyst projections modelled on comparable litigation, not payments anyone has received.
When will AFFF injury cases go to trial?
No date has been set. The October 2025 bellwether trial date was vacated and the court has not put a new personal injury trial on the calendar.
Which conditions qualify?
The bellwether pool is built around kidney cancer, testicular cancer, thyroid disease and ulcerative colitis. Other conditions are being litigated, but those four are where the causation evidence is being tested first.
Does the calculator submit a claim?
No. It produces an educational summary and, if you choose, passes your details for a free case review. It does not file anything and creates no attorney-client relationship.
Request a Free AFFF Case Review
If you had repeated occupational exposure to firefighting foam and were later diagnosed with kidney cancer, testicular cancer, thyroid disease or ulcerative colitis, use the calculator to organise your records or request a confidential screening.
Sources and Further Reading
JPML — Pending MDL Dockets
Official report listing 15,246 actions pending in MDL 2873 as of 3 August 2026.
View the JPML report3M — Public Water Supplier Settlement
The company announcement setting out the up to $10.3 billion present value, the $12.5 billion nominal cap and the 29 March 2024 final approval.
Read 3M’s announcementU.S. District Court, District of South Carolina
The court administering MDL 2873 before Judge Richard M. Gergel.
View the courtU.S. EPA — PFAS
Federal regulatory background on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances.
View the EPA pageATSDR — PFAS and Your Health
Clinical background on the health conditions associated with PFAS exposure.
View the ATSDR page
