The U.S. Supreme Court is being asked to grant a remedy to a group of civilian workers who were injured while serving as military contractors in Afghanistan and Iraq over the alleged bad-faith handling of their claims for benefits under the Defense Base Act.
The DBA extends the rights and remedies of the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act to individuals employed outside the continental United States under contract with or approved by the federal government.
Earlier this year, the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals said the 32 plaintiffs in Brink v. Contine...
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