Created Thu 4th Dec 2008 8:29am PST by 
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Will Indiana Guardsmen receive compensation from KBR for toxic chemical exposure in Iraq?
Current forecast: 26% chance 
Combining all predictions, the current forecast is that this is 26% likely to happen (unchanged in last 1 day)
Sixteen Indiana National Guardsmen have filed a federal lawsuit in a U.S. District Court in Indianapolis alleging that defense contractor KBR Inc. knowingly exposed them to large doses of a harmful carcinogen. The Guardsmen were protecting an Iraqi water pumping plant shortly after the U.S. invasion in 2003. KBR has issued a statement denying the allegations that they knowingly exposed the guardsmen to chromium dichromate at a water pump plant they were protecting. Several of the guardsmen have suffered illnesses concurrent with such exposure.
KBR (formerly Kellogg Brown & Root) was a subsidiary of Houston-based Halliburton (formerly headed by Vice President Cheney) until the companies split late last year and remains one of the largest defense contractors in Iraq.
This question should settle as a "yes" if KBR is forced to offer any financial compensation to the plaintiffs.
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/12/ap_guard_lawsuit_iraq_120308/
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2008/12/04/indiana_guardsmen_sue_defense_contractor_kbr/
KBR (formerly Kellogg Brown & Root) was a subsidiary of Houston-based Halliburton (formerly headed by Vice President Cheney) until the companies split late last year and remains one of the largest defense contractors in Iraq.
This question should settle as a "yes" if KBR is forced to offer any financial compensation to the plaintiffs.
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/12/ap_guard_lawsuit_iraq_120308/
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2008/12/04/indiana_guardsmen_sue_defense_contractor_kbr/
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Suspend date: Tue 5th Jan 2010 3:59pm PST (51 weeks to go)
Initial likelihoods: Yes: 40%
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Created Thu 4th Dec 2008 8:29am PST by capecodviking
capecodviking
Suspended last Monday 3:59pm PST : Suspend date reached
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: Market being reopened as it is not yet clear if compensation has been received, as the case is ongoing. If by the next suspend date no new news is available about the case the market will settle as no
ryanj: Market being reopened as it is not yet clear if compensation has been received, as the case is ongoing. If by the next suspend date no new news is available about the case the market will settle as no
Suspend date: Tue 5th Jan 2010 3:59pm PST (51 weeks to go)
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