The ruling means that lawyers for the families will be able to call experts to testify about the victims’ pain and suffering before the 2019 crash, which killed everyone on board. The ruling posted by US District Judge Jorge Alonso in Chicago is a setback for Boeing, which had argued that evidence about the victims’ suffering would be speculative. In exchange, lawyers for the families agreed not to seek punitive damages against the company. At a hearing last week, Boeing lawyers sought to block testimony about pain and suffering by passengers in the minutes before the crash. The attorneys want to call experts who would testify that the passengers likely suffered physical injuries and emotional trauma before the crash.

Source: Ethiopian News June 01, 2023 04:45 UTC