November 14, 2024
An American soldier who was left with multiple neurological disabilities after a suicide bombing at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan called for a rehearing on the Fourth Circuit's split panel decision not to revive his tort claims against Fluor Corp., the contractor who hired the bomber to work the airfield.
October 30, 2024
A split Fourth Circuit panel on Wednesday affirmed the dismissal of a soldier's lawsuit against Fluor Corp. over injuries he sustained in a 2016 suicide bombing in Afghanistan, holding the suit's state tort claims are preempted by a "combatant activities" exception in federal law.