51-Year-Old Bomber Crash Shines Light on Defense Base Act Claims

A half-century after a nuclear-bomb-laden B-52 crashed in Greenland, three members of a Danish cleanup crew contend they're due U.S. workers' compensation benefits for the cancers they're now fighting. That's according to a case now before the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York. Attorneys for the defendants have said the claims by the three elderly Danes are a long shot. But others point out that comp claims by foreign nationals are not uncommon and are allowed by the 1941 Defense Base Act. And the number of claims may increase in coming years as American military ...