Case Summary:

Hencely v. Fluor Corp. arises from a 2016 suicide bombing at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, where an Afghan national, Ahmad Nayeb, employed by a subcontractor of Fluor Corporation, detonated an explosive vest using materials from his job, killing several people and seriously injuring U.S. Army Specialist Winston T. Hencely. Fluor was working under a Department of Defense logistics contract that required it to hire and supervise local Afghan workers as part of the “Afghan First” program, and Hencely sued Fluor in federal court under South Carolina tort law (negligent supervision, negligent entrustment, negligent retention, and related claims), alleging the company failed to properly vet and supervise Nayeb, which allowed him to move unsupervised around the base and carry out the attack, as well as a contract-based claim arguin ...