Fluor Says Conflict Requires Transfer of Afghan Bombing Case

Fluor Corp. said someone else must preside over a lawsuit accusing it of failing to stop a November 2016 suicide bombing attack in Afghanistan because the current judge has a presumed conflict of interest involving a family member, and 11 related cases have already been transferred to the other judge.

Winston Hencely’s suit, which was filed in February 2019, is one of 12 cases against Fluor pending in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina that all arise from the same attack by a Taliban operative at Bagram Airfield, Fluor told the court in a May 7 ...