Jury awards $49.5 million to Boeing 737 MAX crash victim's family
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Key Points:
- A Chicago jury awarded $49.5 million in damages to the family of Samya Stumo, a 24-year-old American who died in the 2019 Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX crash that killed 157 people.
- The jury reached the verdict after about two hours of deliberation, marking one of the few cases related to the crash not settled out of court.
- Stumo was traveling to Kenya for her first assignment with a public health NGO when the plane crashed shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa.
- The Boeing 737 MAX 8 was also involved in a prior Lion Air crash in Indonesia, leading to a nearly two-year global grounding of the aircraft model for safety upgrades.
- Boeing faced and resolved criminal fraud charges related to the crashes by agreeing to pay over $1.5 billion in fines and compensation, avoiding prosecution while committing to improve safety and quality controls.