CHICAGO/JAKARTA - Boeing Co has settled the first claims stemming from the crash of a Lion Air 737 Max in Indonesia, a US plaintiffs' lawyer said, and three other sources said that families of those killed will receive at least US$1.2 million apiece.
The claims are the first to be settled out of some 55 lawsuits against Boeing in US federal court in Chicago and could set the bar for mediation talks by other Lion Air plaintiffs' lawyers that are scheduled through next month, three people familiar with the matter said. The manufacturer is also facing nearly 100 lawsuits over an Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max crash on March 10 that killed 157 people on its way from Addis Ababa to Nairobi.
The Lion Air lawsuits are being mediated before Donald O'Connell, a retired judge of the Cook County Circuit Court in Illinois, a jurisdiction often used for air accidents situated in Chicago, where Boeing is based. It has said the two crashes - like most air disasters - were caused by a chain of events, with a common link between the two Max accidents being"erroneous activation" of MCAS.
Any settlement or jury award in the Ethiopian cases is likely to be larger than for Lion Air, the people said.
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