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Boeing 737 MAX relatives may pursue pre-impact victim compensation claims
2023.05.30 23:14
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: American civil aviation and Boeing investigators search through the debris at the scene of the Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET 302 plane crash, near the town of Bishoftu, southeast of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia March 12, 2019. REUTERS/Baz Ratner
(Reuters) – A U.S. district judge late on Tuesday ruled that relatives of those killed in a 2019 Boeing (NYSE:) 737 MAX Ethiopian Airlines crash may seek compensation for the pain and suffering felt before impact by the people killed.
Boeing in 2021 agreed to acknowledge liability for compensatory damages in lawsuits filed by families of the 157 people killed in the fatal 737 MAX crash.
“There is sufficient evidence to support a reasonable inference that these passengers experienced pre-impact fright and terror, and that experience is part of the ‘process or manner of death,'” U.S. District Judge Jorge L. Alonso wrote in his ruling. Boeing did not immediately comment.
