Boeing 737 MAX Relatives May Pursue Pre-Impact Victim Compensation Claims May 31, 2023 By David Shepardson A U.S. judge ruled late on Tuesday that relatives of those killed in a 2019 Boeing 737 MAX Ethiopian Airlines...
Boeing Reaches Compensation Terms With Victims of Ethiopian Airlines Crash November 12, 2021 By David Shepardson Boeing Co. agreed on Wednesday to acknowledge liability for compensatory damages in lawsuits filed by families of the 157 people...
Reuters: Feinberg to Oversee Boeing 737 $500M Victim Compensation Fund March 10, 2021 By David Shepardson and Tracy Rucinski Prominent attorneys Kenneth Feinberg and Camille Biros have been named to oversee a $500 million victim compensation fund for the...
Crash Victims’ Families Seek Boeing CEO Testimony; Lawmakers Seek FAA Records March 1, 2021 By Eric M. Johnson and Tracy Rucinski Relatives of victims of a Boeing Co. 737 MAX crash in Ethiopia that occurred five months after an Indonesian Lion...
U.S. Law Firms ‘Hounded’ Relatives of Ethiopian Airlines’ Crash Victims December 23, 2019 By Katharine Houreld Days after the March 10 crash of a Kenya-bound Ethiopian Airlines’ Boeing jet that killed all 157 people on board,...
Boeing 737 Fund Will Pay Crash Victims’ Families $145K Each September 24, 2019 By David Shepardson Boeing Co. will pay the families of 346 people killed in two fatal 737 MAX crashes $144,500 each from a...
Aviation Industry Braces for Double-Digit Premium Hikes After 737 MAX Groundings September 20, 2019 By Allison Lampert and Suzanne Barlyn The aviation industry is bracing for double-digit insurance premium hikes for the first time in about 15 years, as insurers...
Swiss Re H1 Profit Hit by Ethiopian Airlines Crash, Grounding of Boeing 737 MAX July 31, 2019 Swiss Re’s first-half net profit fell 5.3%, as claims relating to the Ethiopian Airlines crash and the subsequent grounding of...
Boeing Creates $50M Crash Victims’ Fund; Hires Feinberg to Oversee July 18, 2019 By David Shepardson Boeing Co. said on Wednesday it will dedicate half of a $100 million fund it created after two crashes of...
15 Families of Victims of Ethiopian Airlines Crash Reject Boeing’s Cash Offer July 9, 2019 By Tom Odula Fifteen Kenyan families of people killed in a plane crash in Ethiopia in March have rejected a proposal by Boeing...