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Chicago jury awards $49.5M to family of 2019 Boeing 737 MAX crash victim

A federal jury in Chicago ordered Boeing to pay $49.5 million in damages to the family of Samya Stumo, a 24-year-old nonprofit global health worker killed in the 2019 Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX crash. The verdict adds another high-profile financial outcome to the MAX litigation landscape.

Discovered 2026-05-13T21:55:28.364858-07:00 | 2026-05-13T21:55:28.364858-07:00

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What Hype is tracking

  • The $49.5 million jury award is a direct, quantified hit to Boeing’s legal exposure stemming from the 2019 737 MAX Ethiopian Airlines accident.
  • It underscores the durability of MAX-related court pressure even after prior proceedings—building on the dispute over criminal fraud charges (source:84ac50e2-d6ff-4474-b1a8-0e230c30fc23) and the appeals court handling of related attempts (source:301f3088-c3ee-4140-96fa-ccc29a9dc0cc).
  • For risk, product-liability, and disclosures stakeholders, the ruling is another data point alongside earlier litigation developments including investor-class proceedings alleging safety-related misstatements (source:7e192f51-8886-41df-bb03-1fab5aa2a8d6).

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