Boeing must pay $35.8 million to the family of Shikha Garg, one of the 157 people killed when a 737 MAX crashed in Ethiopia more than six years ago, a Chicago jury ruled Wednesday

The jury verdict is the first reached in a slew of lawsuits filed against Boeing after two deadly MAX crashes in 2018 and 2019. Those who lost loved ones accused Boeing of manufacturing an unreasonably dangerous and defective aircraft, and claimed the company was negligent, according to attorneys representing the victims’ families.

Investigators now know that the two crashes — killing 189 people in Indonesia in October 2018 and 157 people in Ethiopia four months later — were caused by flawed flight control software on the then-new jet.

Boeing has admitted responsibility for the crashes in the lawsuits, which a

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