Boeing settles nearly all Lion Air 737 MAX crash claims: Filing

Boeing has reached settlement agreements in more than 90% of the wrongful death claims filed in federal court after the 2018 crash of a Lion Air 737 MAX in Indonesia that killed all 189 people on board, a court filing on Tuesday said. The fatal crash, followed within five months by another 737 MAX jetliner in Ethiopia, led to the worldwide grounding of the best-selling model and a corporate crisis that has included hundreds of lawsuits alleging the jet was unsafe and separate probes by the Justice Department and US lawmakers. Boeing has been racing to clear a number of remaining hurdles to win US FAA approval to fly the MAX again commercially, potentially later this year. In a filing in federal court in Chicago, Boeing said claims relating to 171 of the 189 people on board the crashed jet have been fully or partially settled. That includes 140 of the 150 claims filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. A Boeing spokesman said the company remains committed to resolving the remaining cases.<br/>