The verdict awarded to the family of Shikha Garg is the first in the dozens of lawsuits filed after two plane crashes in Ethiopia and Indonesia that killed a combined 346 people.
A jury in federal court in Chicago ordered Boeing on Wednesday to pay more than $28 million to the family of a United Nations environmental worker who was killed in the 2019 crash of a 737 MAX jet in Ethiopia.
The verdict awarded to the family of Shikha Garg is the first in the dozens of lawsuits filed in the wake of that crash and another in Indonesia in 2018, which combined killed 346 people.
Under a deal between the parties struck on Wednesday morning, Garg’s family will receive $35.85 million — the full verdict amount plus 26% interest — and Boeing will not appeal, according to attorneys for the family.
Because the family sued, and won. That’s how lawsuits work.
There are other lawsuits from other familie still going through the process. And you can be sure they’ll cite this trial and decision as evidence.
And elsewhere recently a judge dismissed the criminal prosecution for Boeing’s willful negligence related to these deaths, so civil penalties is all they’re going to see for corporate sanctioned manslaughter/murder.
I wonder why this isn’t a class action. Maybe they thought they could win more this way?
I wonder what’s gonna happen if other courts find different verdicts, or different compensation values…
Probably something similar to all the Alex Jones lawsuits. Families disagreeing with each other about how to go about the lawsuit or the compensation they’re going for, so filing suit separately.