The trial to determine an amount of damages for the grief, loss of income and other expenses owed to the families of those killed in the Ethiopian Airlines crash is set to begin June 20. As such, he wrote that he'll allow evidence and testimony about the distress to be part of the case. However, Jorge Alonso, a federal judge in the northern district of Illinois wrote in a Tuesday ruling that prior federal cases don't always set precedent, and he said part of the job of a federal court when handling an unclear issue of state law is to predict how the state Supreme Court would rule on the issue.Īlonso wrote that he believes the Illinois state Supreme Court would allow damages to be recovered over the "pre-impact emotional distress" suffered by the passengers. The judge overseeing a lawsuit against Boeing has ruled that the fear experienced by the 157 people on an Ethiopian Airlines flight prior to the 2019 crash that killed everyone on board can be considered in an upcoming damages trial.Īttorneys for Boeing had argued in March that court rulings over prior plane crashes in Illinois, where the trial is taking place, had established precedent that damages could only be considered for injuries and pain caused by the plane crash, and not the unknowable pain and fear that results from knowing a plane is about to crash.Ĭonsidering the plane crashed fast enough that everyone on board died instantly, the attorneys argued, Boeing couldn't be held liable for any pain and suffering felt by the victims as they didn't feel any pain. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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