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Jury awards $49.5 million to family of Boeing 737 MAX crash victim
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Jury awards $49.5 million to family of Boeing 737 MAX crash victim

The Seattle Times·The Seattle Times·19 days ago
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A jury on Wednesday awarded $49.5 million to the family of Samya Rose Stumo , a 24-year-old who died when a Boeing 737 MAX plane crashed in Ethiopia in March 2019, the second deadly MAX crash in a matter of months.  The trial, which started May 4 in a Chicago federal court, resolves one of the last remaining cases filed against Boeing by the families who lost loved ones in those crashes. It also marks only the second time Boeing has faced a civil trial related to the crashes, which killed 346 people. Boeing reached an agreement with the Department of Justice to avoid criminal prosecution and has reached confidential settlements in dozens of lawsuits brought by the victims’ families.  In the first case that went to trial, taking place over a week in November, a jury awarded the family of Shikha Garg more than $28 million in damages . Another case was set to go to trial in January but the parties reached a resolution just after jury selection.…

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