A federal jury in Chicago awarded $49.5 million in damages on Wednesday to the family of Samya Stumo. Stumo, a 24-year-old American nonprofit global health worker, was killed in the 2019 crash of a Boeing 737 Max jet in Ethiopia.
The incident was the second of two Boeing 737 MAX crashes that occurred within months of each other in 2018 and 2019.
This represents the second verdict tied to the crash. While dozens of wrongful death lawsuits were filed, Boeing has reached confidential pre-trial settlements in nearly all of the civil cases.