The families of the 157 persons who died in the Ethiopian Airlines (ET) plane crash on Sunday may sue the aircraft manufacturer, Boeing and its insurers, for compensation to the tune of N762.5 million per person. Boeing737 EthiopiaAirlines
The chances of lawsuits and favourable hearing brightened yesterday when the United States Federal Aviation Administration admitted similarities between Sunday’s crash and a previous one in Asia, about five months ago.
“Hopefully, they will come up with an answer but until they do, the planes are grounded,” Trump said. Initial payments to the passengers’ families are bound by the Warsaw and Montreal conventions, but those payouts could be much higher if families pursue legal claims, particularly through U.S. courts, the head of law firm Irwin Mitchell’s travel litigation group, Clive Garner, said.
Reports have it that U.S. courts often throw out such lawsuits, given the difficulty of finding witnesses overseas, but the fact that eight U.S. citizens were killed in the Ethiopian Airlines crash increases the likelihood that the litigation on behalf of all victims’ families could be heard by a U.S. court, Green said.
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