Boeing aims to move victim lawsuits abroad, but CE says he is unaware

When Boeing’s CE was asked by Congress last month if the company was working to get lawsuits related to the deadly crash of Lion Air Flight 610 transferred from the US to Indonesia, where the accident occurred, he pleaded ignorance. “I can’t comment on that,” Dennis Muilenburg said during the second day of contentious hearings investigating the deadly crashes of two of the company’s 737 Max jets. “I’m just not familiar with the details of that.” But while Muilenburg said he was unaware of Boeing’s legal strategy in cases related to Flight 610, the company’s lawyers have been remarkably transparent. In at least 6 court filings and in-person appearances over the last year, Boeing has made it clear that it is prepared to seek a transfer of the cases out of the US through forum non conveniens, or inconvenient forum. <br/>