On December 8, a court in Beijing (China) issued a verdict demanding Malaysia Airlines pay more than 2.9 million yuan ($410,240) in compensation each, to some families of passengers missing on flight MH370.
The verdict involves 8 lawsuits involving 8 passengers, issued after more than a decade since the tragedy.
The People's Court of Trieu Duong District said that 47 other lawsuits were withdrawn after the victims' families reached an out-of-court settlement with Malaysia Airlines and its international airline, Malaysia Airlines International.
However, there are still 23 cases under trial.
The court said the compensation included funeral expenses, mental losses and other damages.
Malaysia Airlines has not responded to the request.
The Boeing 777 carrying 239 people disappeared from radar on March 8, 2014 while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Although the largest search in aviation history has been launched, the plane has not yet been found.
More than half of the passengers on the flight were Chinese. The rest include Malaysian, Indonesian, Australian citizens, as well as India, the US, the Netherlands and France.
Earlier this month, the Malaysian Transport Ministry said that the search for MH370 would resume on December 30.
The new search will last for 55 days and will be conducted in highest-probability areas where the plane crashed, but the exact location was not disclosed.
