Parents Win Crash Suit
Reuters
NEW YORK —
A jury Thursday awarded more than $2 million in damages to the parents of a college student killed in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in which 270 died.
The verdict, in U.S. District Court in Uniondale, was the second in a trial since courts decided three years ago that Pan American World Airways was liable for damages on the grounds that its security procedures had failed to prevent a suitcase containing the bomb from being placed on the flight.
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