Honeywell Escapes Damages in Government’s Body Armor Case (1)

Honeywell International Inc. showed that it doesn’t owe the Justice Department damages in its False Claims Act suit alleging the supply of faulty body armor used in bulletproof vests, the D.C. Circuit said Tuesday.

A district court was wrong to apply the “proportionate share” damages approach, which forces a bad actor to pay a fair amount of total damages relative to others if found liable, Judge Neomi Rao of the US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said.

The three-judge panel agreed with Honeywell that the district court should have applied the the dollar-for-dollar offset approach known as pro ...