http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-05/halliburton-s-flawed-cement-may-seal-legal-fate-commentary-by-ann-woolner.html
Criminal negligence anyone?
Some boundaries where never meant to be pushed
Halliburton Co. probably meant no irony when it named its annual report last year, “Pushing Boundaries.”
Last week a commission investigating the disaster reported that the Houston-based company had reason to suspect from its own work that the kind of cement similar to that which it used at the well wouldn’t hold. The material had failed three out of four stability tests, and Halliburton didn’t test the final formula used.
If it had, it might have found what experts at Chevron discovered when testing that formula at the request of investigators. Nine times they tested the formula used, and nine times the stuff was unstable.
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Thursday, November 4, 2010
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
KBR hails court ruling as wartime suit protection
Now remember these words: The War on Terror.
Which now gives the like of KBR a free ride to do as they will without fear of persecution
http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssI...28766620090706
KBR sees "significant" protection in military missions
* Lawyers in other cases against KBR say ruling is narrow
SAN FRANCISCO, July 6 (Reuters) - KBR Inc (KBR.N) said a U.S. appeals court ruling would help protect the company from civil lawsuits stemming from its work done under U.S. military logistics contracts.
The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last Tuesday that KBR could not be found negligent in the case of a U.S. Army sergeant severely brain-damaged when a KBR fuel tanker he was escorting in a military convoy crashed in Iraq in 2004.
"Contractors facing these types of suits now have a useful appellate court precedent which affirms that significant tort protections exist where the contractors are executing military directed missions," Andrew Farley, KBR's general counsel, said in a statement on Monday.
Citing the political question doctrine, the appeals court found that adjudicating the plaintiff's claims in the case would require "extensive reexamination and second-guessing of many sensitive judgments surrounding the conduct of a military convoy in war time."
Apart from civil lawsuits by soldiers, KBR's conduct as a military contractor has been called into question by U.S. lawmakers as well as some investors.
In May, Houston-based KBR and Halliburton Co (HAL.N), KBR's parent company until two years ago, were sued by a pension fund accusing them of lack of oversight after a bout of scandals that the fund says destroyed value. [ID:nN14500012]
Lawyers in other civil suits against KBR said
Which now gives the like of KBR a free ride to do as they will without fear of persecution
http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssI...28766620090706
KBR sees "significant" protection in military missions
* Lawyers in other cases against KBR say ruling is narrow
SAN FRANCISCO, July 6 (Reuters) - KBR Inc (KBR.N) said a U.S. appeals court ruling would help protect the company from civil lawsuits stemming from its work done under U.S. military logistics contracts.
The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last Tuesday that KBR could not be found negligent in the case of a U.S. Army sergeant severely brain-damaged when a KBR fuel tanker he was escorting in a military convoy crashed in Iraq in 2004.
"Contractors facing these types of suits now have a useful appellate court precedent which affirms that significant tort protections exist where the contractors are executing military directed missions," Andrew Farley, KBR's general counsel, said in a statement on Monday.
Citing the political question doctrine, the appeals court found that adjudicating the plaintiff's claims in the case would require "extensive reexamination and second-guessing of many sensitive judgments surrounding the conduct of a military convoy in war time."
Apart from civil lawsuits by soldiers, KBR's conduct as a military contractor has been called into question by U.S. lawmakers as well as some investors.
In May, Houston-based KBR and Halliburton Co (HAL.N), KBR's parent company until two years ago, were sued by a pension fund accusing them of lack of oversight after a bout of scandals that the fund says destroyed value. [ID:nN14500012]
Lawyers in other civil suits against KBR said
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