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When a subcontractor's worker is injured overseas, the prime and the sub often both deny they insured him. Privity between the two decides who owed DBA coverage across 43,298 prime awards and 4,315 sub-award records.
OTA agreements sit outside the FAR, so the clause that normally forces DBA coverage may be missing. Here is how the Defense Base Act still reaches OTA work, and why tracing the carrier gets harder.
A federal novation hands the contract to a buyer, but the DBA claim usually stays with the injury-date carrier. Here is who owns the claim after a corporate sale, and how to trace the carrier across three different company names.
On joint venture and mentor-protege contracts, the name on the award is rarely the employer that secured DBA coverage. Here is how responsibility actually attaches.
On a defense contract, FAR 52.228-3 is only the first layer. DFARS adds deployment and insurance rules that shape every carrier trace, but the clauses still never name the underwriter.
DBA insurance premiums are allowable on cost-type contracts, but DCAA tests them on reasonableness, allocation, and credits. A 2011 SIGAR audit found $58.5 million in DBA refunds never returned to the government.
The Pentagon posts named primes, dollar values, and places of performance every business day. Here is how to mine those announcements and join them to 43,298 indexed overseas contract awards.
CPARS evaluations document which contractor performed a federal contract, when, and where. Tied to the CAGE, UEI, and PIID identifiers threaded across ClaimTrove's 865,232 entity records, that corroboration anchors the right party and points toward the carrier.
Contract type quietly decides who funds the DBA insurance premium. Across 43,298 indexed awards, the cost-plus versus fixed-price split shapes carrier behavior in coverage disputes.
An FMS contract can look foreign on paper and still sit under a U.S. government contracting party. That gap is where DBA applicability arguments live, and where carrier identification starts.
INL Air Wing contractors fly, fix, and support counter-narcotics aircraft in some of the most dangerous airspace on earth, yet their DBA coverage often runs through a prime-sub chain that hides the actual carrier.
MCC compact projects run in some of the same countries as defense and aid work, yet many attorneys assume the Defense Base Act stops at DOD and State. It often does not.
NASA is a civilian science agency, not the military, so attorneys assume the Defense Base Act never touches its overseas contractors. That assumption can quietly cost a claimant an entire remedy.
DLA fuel and supply contracts push contractors into 100+ overseas countries, yet the agency carries no mandated DBA carrier. That gap traps unprepared claims.
A police mentor injured in Kabul under a DOJ rule-of-law contract is DBA-covered, but the carrier sits three layers down a prime/sub chain that crosses two federal departments. Here is how DOJ justice-sector work creates covered roles, and why the carrier is so hard to trace.
FAR 52.228-3 is the single sentence that forces DBA coverage onto a federal contract, yet it appears on only a fraction of the 43,298 overseas awards in ClaimTrove's database. Here is what the clause requires, how it flows down, and why a missing clause does not mean a missing claim.
A Secretary of Labor waiver can strip DBA coverage from a country or a class of workers, but it almost never reaches U.S. and third-country nationals. Here is how the country waiver process actually works.
USACE ran a mandated DBA program with a single carrier from December 2005 through September 2013. NAVFAC never did. That one structural difference changes how you trace carriers on every Navy construction project.
AFCAP is the Air Force's answer to LOGCAP, but its DBA carrier rides on the task order, not the umbrella contract. Here's why that trips up investigators.
USAID's AIDAR channels DBA coverage for implementers like Chemonics through an agency arrangement that looks nothing like DoD contracting. Here is why.
FPDS tracks every federal contract action, but most DBA attorneys never learn to query it. Here is how to extract the contract numbers, place of performance data, and agency relationships that connect injured workers to their carriers.
Private military contractors must navigate ITAR registration, DDTC licensing, and DOD personnel authorization before deploying overseas. Each of these licensing records creates documentary evidence that connects directly to DBA insurance carrier identification.
The State Department's WPPS program has generated over $5.6 billion in protective services contracts across at least 5 prime contractors, each with distinct DBA carrier histories that shift across task orders and contract periods.
FAR 52.228-3 requires primes to flow DBA insurance obligations to subcontractors, but ClaimTrove data from 4,315 subcontract awards shows multi-tier chains where coverage gaps appear at the 2nd and 3rd tier with alarming frequency.
Bilateral security agreements between the US and host nations shape DBA jurisdiction, contractor immunity from local law, and available legal remedies. Understanding BSA status is critical for any overseas contractor injury claim.
Over 10,400 overseas task orders sit under 1,359 parent IDIQ contracts in federal procurement data. For DBA carrier identification, the task order number — not the master contract — usually determines which insurer covers an injured worker.
Construction NAICS codes appear in 641 overseas federal contract awards across 67 employers in our database. The subcontractor chains on these projects create some of the most complex DBA carrier identification challenges attorneys face.
GSA Multiple Award Schedule contracts generate over 100 overseas task orders in ClaimTrove's federal contract data alone. Understanding when these orders trigger DBA insurance is critical for carrier identification.
FAR 52.228-3 requires DBA insurance on every overseas federal contract. Understanding this clause gives attorneys a contractual anchor for carrier identification across 43,298 tracked contract awards.
SAM.gov holds 865,000+ federal contractor registrations with legal names, CAGE codes, and UEI numbers. Here is how DBA practitioners use it to verify employer identity and uncover corporate relationships.
FOIA requests are one of the few direct paths to DBA carrier data from federal agencies, but statutory 20-day timelines routinely stretch to months. Here is how to target the right agency and ask the right questions.
Not every overseas federal contract triggers DBA insurance requirements. Of the 43,298 contract awards in ClaimTrove's database, the coverage determination hinges on contract type, FAR clause inclusion, and whether the work involves U.S. workers abroad.
NATO Status of Forces Agreements govern the legal status of 1,922 NATO-connected contracts worth of civilian contractor personnel. Whether your claimant works at Ramstein or Aviano, SOFA status directly determines their DBA coverage path and local immunity protections.
The Department of Justice awarded roughly 900 overseas contracts spanning DEA interdiction, FBI legal attaches, and US Marshals operations, yet DBA practitioners rarely look past DOD. Here is what you are missing.
When USACE contract W912HQ-11-D-0004 expired September 30, 2013, DBA rates approximately doubled and carrier records scattered across dozens of insurers. Here is how investigations split by injury date.
LOGCAP has cycled through three prime contractors across four contract generations since 1985, and each transition reshuffled DBA carrier coverage for tens of thousands of overseas workers.
Every federal contractor has a CAGE code and UEI number tied to its SAM.gov registration, yet most DBA attorneys search by name alone. ClaimTrove cross-references these identifiers across 865,000+ SAM records and 43,000+ contract awards to resolve employer identity faster than manual lookups.
The State Department accounts for 2,291 overseas contract awards in ClaimTrove's database and is the only federal agency that cycled through two mandatory DBA carriers before abandoning the model entirely.
The Department of Defense accounts for 89% of overseas contract awards in ClaimTrove's database, but its fragmented sub-agency structure means carrier identification requires searching across dozens of contracting commands with distinct insurance patterns.
When a major contract vehicle gets re-competed, the new awardee may bring a different DBA carrier. Transition periods create gaps that affect claims.
USAspending.gov tracks billions in federal contracts. Here is how DBA attorneys can extract the fields that matter for carrier identification.
Prime contractors and subcontractors each carry DBA insurance, but identifying the sub's carrier is far harder. Here is why the contractor tier matters.
