June 20, 2023
Boeing has settled the last of six cases that had been scheduled for trial over the Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max crash, but the aerospace giant and the crash victims' families told an Illinois federal judge Tuesday they had not agreed on how to select the next round of cases headed to trial.
June 14, 2023
Boeing has agreed to settle five wrongful death cases over the Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max crash days before a damages trial starts in Chicago federal court, but the family of a Rwandan United Nations worker will still take their case to trial, attorneys for the families told Law360 on Wednesday.
May 31, 2023
An Illinois federal judge on Tuesday cleared a path for the families of victims of the 2019 Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max crash to potentially recover, at an upcoming trial against Boeing, damages for pain and suffering that passengers experienced before impact.
February 23, 2023
Two more families have reached settlements over the deaths of their loved ones in the 2019 Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max crash for undisclosed amounts, according to a court filing in Illinois federal court on Wednesday.
November 14, 2022
The heir of a man killed in the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max crash is seeking an Illinois federal court's approval to settle allegations of negligence and strict product liability for an undisclosed amount, dropping claims that the aircraft was defective and negligently designed.
September 14, 2022
The representative of a man killed in the Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max crash is seeking a judge's approval to settle claims that the Boeing aircraft was defective and negligently designed or built.
June 16, 2022
An Illinois federal judge set two trial dates Thursday to help loosen what he called a clear "logjam" of more than a hundred cases stemming from the crash of Ethiopian Air Flight 302, though Boeing and the victims' families disagreed over the fairest case-picking methodology.
November 10, 2021
Boeing on Wednesday accepted liability for the Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max crash that killed 157 people, reaching a deal that shields the American aerospace giant from punitive damages while clearing the way for families spearheading negligence and wrongful death suits in Illinois federal court to collect compensatory damages.
October 22, 2021
A magistrate judge insisted in Illinois federal court that he doesn't need to step aside from a lawsuit against Boeing Co. over the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crash even though his individual retirement account held Boeing shares.
February 24, 2021
A committee of attorneys representing plaintiffs suing Boeing Co. in relation to the 2019 Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crash urged an Illinois federal judge on Tuesday to sanction two lawyers for actively soliciting the clients of other attorneys working on the case.