HOUSTON — Lawyers for civilian truckers who drove into a deadly ambush in Iraq are getting a new chance to revive their case in a rare closed hearing before a federal appeals court.
Former KBR Inc. truck drivers and families of those killed say the former Halliburton subsidiary knowingly sent the truckers into a dangerous zone where they were attacked by Iraqi insurgents on April 9, 2004.
The ambush killed six KBR drivers and two soldiers and seriously injured numerous others. One KBR trucker, plaintiff Reginald Lane, lost an arm and suffered irreparable brain damage.
A federal judge in Houston threw out their lawsuit against Halliburton in September 2006. Several former drivers and kin appealed to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, which will hear arguments today.
The Associated Press
