The longer passengers and crew were aware of their fate and suffered mental anguish, the larger the likely payout
Settlements to the families of 346 people who died in the two catastrophic Boeing Max plane crashes will be calculated, in part, by how long the victims knew they were doomed.
“There’s a better chance of [financial] recovery if it took minutes rather than seconds for the plane to crash,” Joe Power, a personal-injury lawyer representing some Ethiopian victims, told Bloomberg this weekend. “The bottom line is Boeing’s exposure is much more substantial than in any other case that I’ve been a part of in my quarter-century of representing families in plane-crash cases,” said Brian Alexander, a New York aviation lawyer for victims of the Ethiopian Airlines jet.
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