3 legal firms to offer free legal help for injured troops at Walter Reed and Bethesda

Above: A combat-injured veteran with his wife navigates a corridor at Walter Reed Hospital.

Three national law firms have agreed to provide free legal representation for combat-injured service members at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington and National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., as they try to navigate the complicated military disability rating process.

A formal announcement is expected Wednesday about a partnership between the law firms and Disabled American Veterans to provide the legal help.

“Investigative reports have revealed a significant number of cases where the U.S. military appears to have assigned low disability ratings to service members with serious injuries and thus avoided paying them full military disabled retirement benefits,” the DAV said in a prepared statement. “This partnership has been created to help protect the rights of those injured soldiers who have given so much of themselves to protect us.”

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