"A federal jury has awarded $49.5 million to the family of a 24-year-old global nonprofit worker killed in the 2019 crash of a Boeing 737 Max jet in Ethiopia while traveling to her first major assignment."
"Jurors awarded $21 million for the pain and suffering and emotional distress that Stumo experienced aboard the doomed flight, $16.5 million for the loss of companionship suffered by her family and $12 million for their grief, according to attorneys representing her estate."
"The verdict, reached Wednesday after a trial in federal court in Chicago, resolves one of the last remaining wrongful death lawsuits filed in connection with the disaster that killed all 157 people aboard Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302."
"It is the second verdict tied to the crash. Boeing has reached confidential pre-trial settlements in most of the dozens of wrongful death lawsuits filed in connection with the Ethiopian Airlines disaster and a similar 737 Max crash five months earlier off the coast of Indonesia that together killed 346 people."
A federal jury in Chicago awarded $49.5 million to the family of 24-year-old Samya Stumo, who was killed in the March 10, 2019 crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302. The verdict resolved a remaining wrongful death lawsuit tied to the disaster that killed all 157 people aboard the Boeing 737 Max. Stumo had recently joined a global nonprofit focused on strengthening health systems in developing countries and was traveling to Uganda for her first major assignment. Jurors awarded $21 million for her pain and suffering and emotional distress, $16.5 million for loss of companionship, and $12 million for the family’s grief. This was the second verdict connected to the crash, following other settlements in related lawsuits involving Boeing.
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