November 28, 2023
An Illinois federal judge gave Boeing a week to offer settlements in every remaining lawsuit over a 2019 Ethiopian Airlines crash and said he would wait to set more trials after the aerospace giant pleaded Tuesday for "a chance" to negotiate without a trial date lurking in the shadows.
November 02, 2023
Boeing has agreed to settle six wrongful death cases over the Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max crash days before a damages trial was scheduled to start in Chicago federal court next week, counsel for the families confirmed Thursday.
August 09, 2023
Boeing has asked an Illinois federal judge to extend a pause on proceedings in a case from the family of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max crash victim pursuing punitive damages against Boeing's top ranks, saying it's still carefully negotiating potential settlements with families.
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.