April 30, 2026
Boeing is set to face another round of Illinois jurors as the aerospace giant and the family of an Ethiopian Air crash victim head for what could be the second wrongful death trial kicking off next week in consolidated litigation stemming from the tragedy.
March 02, 2026
A federal judge handling consolidated litigation over Ethiopian Air Flight ET 302's crash said he will apply Illinois rather than Massachusetts law to a case nearing trial, allowing the plaintiffs to seek more compensatory damages.
January 14, 2026
Boeing has agreed to settle the wrongful death case of a man who lost his parents and sister in the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 crash of 2019, striking a deal following the selection of a jury and just ahead of planned opening arguments in the Chicago trial on Wednesday morning.
January 07, 2026
The latest wrongful death case against Boeing over the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 crash of 2019 is teed up for trial in Chicago on Monday, where jurors will determine damages for a man who lost multiple family members.
November 12, 2025
An Illinois federal jury awarded more than $28 million on Wednesday to the estate of a United Nations environmental scientist who died in the 2019 crash of a Boeing jet flying Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, even though the parties reached a settlement ahead of closing arguments.
November 05, 2025
The estate of a United Nations environmental worker who died in the 2019 crash of the Boeing jet flying Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 should be awarded substantial damages for her experience in the flight and how the crash affected her husband, both Boeing and the estate told Illinois federal jurors Wednesday.
October 08, 2025
A Chicago damages trial has been set for Nov. 3 for two families forging ahead with wrongful death cases against Boeing over the Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max 8 crash of 2019, with three additional cases up next for trial, counsel for the families said Wednesday.
July 11, 2025
A Chicago damages trial set for a man who lost his immediate family in an Ethiopian Airlines plane crash can be taken off the books because his case settled "literally two minutes" before his final pretrial hearing, attorneys told an Illinois federal judge Friday.
April 07, 2025
Boeing has agreed to settle two wrongful death cases over the Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max crash just before a damages trial was scheduled to start in Chicago federal court on Monday.
March 21, 2025
An Illinois federal judge on Friday dismissed a suit from an Ethiopian Airlines crash victim's family alleging former Boeing CEOs were personally liable for the company's negligence, holding the complaint lacks facts regarding what the CEOs knew about the jet's overall safety after another crash five months earlier.