KBR Whistleblower’s Share Thrown Out on Unsettled Claims (2)

The US government won its appeal challenging a $1.1 million award to a whistleblower in a False Claims Act case against defense contractor Kellogg, Brown & Root Services Inc.

The government showed that the estate of whistleblower Bud Conyers shouldn’t receive a share of the $13.7 million settlement with KBR because “the parties settled none of the FCA claims brought by Conyers,” Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said Tuesday, reversing a lower court’s decision.

This decision “overlooks the fact that the settlement agreement expressly released not only the government’s claims, but ...