Washington– Supreme Court on Wednesday Clear the road A veteran injured in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan may file a lawsuit against the government contractor for whom the attacker was working when he built the explosive device.
Spc ex army. Winston Hensley was injured in 2016 when he stopped a man who was on his way to detonate an explosive vest in a 5K race on Veterans Day weekend at Bagram Airport. Instead, Ahmed Nayeb blew himself up when confronted, killing five people and wounding more than a dozen, according to court documents.
The projectiles fractured Hensley’s skull and tore through his brain, leaving him without full use of much of the left side of his body. He also suffers from abnormal brain waves, seizures and traumatic brain injuries, his lawyers wrote.
The company then moved to sue Fluor Intercontinental, after an Army investigation faulted the company’s failure to supervise Nayib, an Afghan employee who built the jacket at a work site inside the base, court documents say.
The Irving, Texas-based engineering construction company said it could not be sued because it was then working for the government, which generally enjoys immunity from lawsuits.
Hence, it was said that immunity is only for the government itself, and not for contractors.