Worldwide legal claims could await Malaysia Airlines after jet downed

By Andrew Chung and David Ingram NEW YORK (Reuters) - Malaysia Airlines may need to convince judges from several countries that it was not negligent to send a plane over wartorn eastern Ukraine if the airline hopes to avoid an outsize legal exposure for the downing of Flight MH17, aviation lawyers said. The lawyers told Reuters they expected at least some of the families of the 283 passengers on board the flight to sue Malaysia Airlines for damages above the amount they can already seek under an international agreement. There was no consensus among the lawyers about whether there was a strong case that Malaysia Airlines was negligent. He said the national airline took no undue risk in flying over Ukraine. Read More http://ift.tt/1n2iNH3