Ontario court awards UIA Flight 752 victims’ families $142M in damages
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has awarded over $142 million to the families of eight passengers aboard Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 who died when the plane was shot down overThe court sided with the families in their lawsuit against Iran, as well as the country’s supreme leader and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps that argued the defendants were responsible for an act of terrorism and the families’ resulting harm and loss.
In his decision, Justice David Stinson ruled that the families successfully established the shootdown “constitutes ‘terrorist activity'” under Canadian law and were entitled to damages. The total includes more than $16 million to each family in punitive damages, and an additional $1 million each for pain and suffering.
Some of the families were also awarded between $150,000 and $200,000 for each victim for loss of guidance, care and companionship. Those families lost siblings, spouses or, in one case, a 22-year-old daughter.Flight 752 was travelling from Tehran to Kyiv on Jan. 8, 2020 when it was shot down soon after takeoff.
Stinson’s judgment, issued Monday, comes after an earlier decision in the Ontario Superior Court last year that awarded the families of six other victims of the tragedy a combined $107 million.Story continues below advertisementQuestions will now turn to how or whether the families will ever see any of that money.
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