A US jury has awarded $US49.5 million to the family of a 24-year-old global nonprofit worker killed in the 2019 crash of a Boeing 737 Max jet in Ethiopia. The verdict resolves one of the last remaining wrongful death lawsuits filed in connection with the disaster that claimed the life of Samya Stumo.
A US jury has awarded $US49.5 million ($68.6 million) to the family of a 24-year-old global nonprofit worker killed in the 2019 crash of a Boeing 737 Max jet in Ethiopia while travelling to her first major assignment.
The verdict, reached after a trial in federal court in Chicago, resolves one of the last remaining wrongful death lawsuits filed in connection with the disaster that claimed the life of Samya Stumo, a 2015 graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a recent employee of a nonprofit focused on strengthening health systems in developing countries. The jury awarded damages for the pain and suffering, loss of companionship, and grief experienced by Stumo and her family
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