9th Circuit Says DBA's 'Zone of Special Danger' Can Exist for Foreign Nationals

The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday ruled that a government contractor’s employee was entitled to benefits for the partial loss of his leg after he developed a maggot-infested infection from a cut he sustained during his off-duty hours while fishing off a coral reef in a remote island where he had been stationed. Edwin Jentil had hurt himself while working on Gagan Island – an uninhabited speck of land that’s part of the Kwajalein Atoll, approximately 2,400 miles southwest of Honolulu. The island is accessible only by boat or helicopter, with the permission of Ch...