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  "meta": {
    "publisher": "Mass Tort Marketing Agency",
    "dataset": "Cost Per Signed Retainer (CPR) Benchmark",
    "release": "2026-q1",
    "quarter": "Q1 2026",
    "temporalCoverage": "2026-01-01/2026-03-31",
    "dataAsOf": "2026-03-31",
    "published": "2026-04-24",
    "lastReviewed": "2026-06-10",
    "methodologyVersion": "1.0",
    "methodologyUrl": "https://www.masstortmarketingagency.com/benchmarks/methodology",
    "canonicalUrl": "https://www.masstortmarketingagency.com/benchmarks/camp-lejeune",
    "verification": {
      "status": "unverified",
      "reviewer": null,
      "statement": "No third party has reviewed this methodology or the underlying data. Mass Tort Marketing Agency sells the leads these figures price."
    },
    "vendorDisclosure": "Mass Tort Marketing Agency sells the mass tort leads these figures price. The panel is the agency's own client base and the underlying performance data is self-reported by those firms.",
    "sourcesDisclosure": "Benchmark ranges are drawn from the panel performance data cross-referenced against published industry surveys and practitioner-disclosed benchmarks. Those sources are not named in the published methodology, and how they enter the calculation is not specified.",
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY 4.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
      "attribution": "Mass Tort Marketing Agency CPR Benchmark, https://www.masstortmarketingagency.com/benchmarks/"
    },
    "nullConvention": "A null value is never a zero and never an estimate. Every null is paired with an adjacent *Reason field stating why the value is unavailable.",
    "snapshotUrl": "https://www.masstortmarketingagency.com/benchmarks/data/2026-q1.json"
  },
  "tort": {
    "slug": "camp-lejeune",
    "name": "Camp Lejeune (PACT Act water contamination)",
    "status": "Active",
    "cpr": {
      "low": 2400,
      "median": null,
      "medianUnavailableReason": "Per-tort medians are not published. The dataset carries the interquartile low and high bounds for each tort; only the national median is published as a point value.",
      "high": 3600,
      "currency": "USD"
    },
    "signedRatePct": {
      "low": 14,
      "high": 20
    },
    "qualificationTier": "Medium",
    "sampleSize": null,
    "sampleSizeUnavailableReason": "Per-tort sample sizes are not broken out in the published dataset. The panel total (140 firms, $180M of annual mass tort lead spend across 16 active tort categories) is published at the panel level only, so the number of firms and the spend basis behind any single row cannot be stated.",
    "confidenceInterval": null,
    "confidenceIntervalUnavailableReason": "Not computable from the published dataset. Benchmarks are published as trimmed interquartile ranges, and the per-observation values a confidence interval requires are not retained in the published figures.",
    "falloffPct": null,
    "falloffUnavailableReason": "Not published for this tort. The source dataset does not state a numeric falloff range for Camp Lejeune.",
    "falloffNote": null,
    "rowUpdated": "2026-04-24",
    "rowUpdatedNote": "Rows are refreshed as a complete set each release, so every row carries the release publication date rather than an independent per-row date.",
    "qualificationCriteria": "The claimant was stationed at, or resided near, Camp Lejeune between 1953 and 1987 for at least 30 days, plus one of a defined list of qualifying health conditions.",
    "statusAndAcquisition": "Active, and the outlier on this list: a statutorily-created tort under the PACT Act rather than a traditional product liability matter. Signed rates are unusually high for a mid-range CPR tort because the criteria are checklist-verifiable and claimants typically have strong documentation of their service history. CPR has compressed 18-25% from its 2023 peak as the market matured and the remaining unidentified claimant pool shrank. Firms operating successfully in 2026 build referral pipelines through VFW posts, veterans' service organizations, and VA-affiliated medical providers alongside paid acquisition.",
    "relatedTorts": [
      "afff",
      "roundup",
      "pfas-personal-injury"
    ],
    "canonicalUrl": "https://www.masstortmarketingagency.com/benchmarks/camp-lejeune",
    "quarter": "Q1 2026"
  },
  "series": {
    "low": [
      {
        "release": "2024-q4",
        "label": "Q4 2024",
        "dataAsOf": "2024-12-31",
        "value": null,
        "valueReason": "No per-tort breakdown for Q4 2024 is held in the dataset. Only the national median is held for that quarter, which is why the per-tort trend series begins at Q1 2026."
      },
      {
        "release": "2026-q1",
        "label": "Q1 2026",
        "dataAsOf": "2026-03-31",
        "value": 2400,
        "valueReason": null
      }
    ],
    "high": [
      {
        "release": "2024-q4",
        "label": "Q4 2024",
        "dataAsOf": "2024-12-31",
        "value": null,
        "valueReason": "No per-tort breakdown for Q4 2024 is held in the dataset. Only the national median is held for that quarter, which is why the per-tort trend series begins at Q1 2026."
      },
      {
        "release": "2026-q1",
        "label": "Q1 2026",
        "dataAsOf": "2026-03-31",
        "value": 3600,
        "valueReason": null
      }
    ]
  },
  "annotations": [
    {
      "id": "camp-lejeune-compression",
      "scope": "tort:camp-lejeune",
      "period": "2023/2026-q1",
      "title": "CPR compressed 18-25% from the 2023 peak",
      "text": "Camp Lejeune cost per signed retainer has compressed 18-25% from its 2023 peak as the market matured and the remaining unidentified claimant pool shrank. The 2023 peak value is not published as a data point, so this movement is recorded as a stated change, not as a second point in the series.",
      "source": {
        "name": "Mass Tort Marketing Agency CPR Benchmark, Q1 2026 release",
        "url": "https://www.masstortmarketingagency.com/benchmarks/methodology/",
        "date": "2026-04-24",
        "type": "internal"
      }
    }
  ]
}