India, Nov. 4 -- In an air crash that killed 157 people in Ethiopia in 2019, an Indian victim's family is one of two whose cases against aircraft maker Boeing are set to open before a federal court jury in Chicago this week.

The company has accepted its fault and settled most of the dozens of lawsuits by families of victims in the six years after a Boeing 737 Max jetliner crashed. Even in the trial for these cases now in Chicago, where Boeing used to have its headquarters, the jury won't examine the the company's liability.

What the eight-person jury would be tasked with is, deciding how much Boeing should pay to the families of Mercy Ndivo, a 28-year-old mother originally from Kenya, and 36-year-old United Nations consultant Shikha Gar...