July 11 (Reuters) - Boeing ( BA ) reached a settlement

with a Canadian man whose family died in the March 2019 crash of

an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX, the man's lawyer said on

Friday.

The terms of the settlement with Paul Njoroge of Toronto

were not released. The 41-year-old man's wife Carolyne and three

young children - Ryan, 6, Kellie, 4, and nine-month-old Rubi -

died in the crash. His mother-in-law was traveling with them and

also died in the crash.

The trial was scheduled to start on Monday in U.S. District

Court in Chicago and would have been the first against the U.S.

planemaker stemming from two fatal 737 MAX crashes in 2018 and

2019 that together killed 346 people.

Boeing ( BA ) also averted a trial in April, when it settled with

the families of two other victims in the Ethiopian Airlines

crash.

The planemaker declined to comment on the latest

settlement.

The two accidents led to a 20-month grounding of the

company's best-selling jet and cost Boeing ( BA ) more than $20

billion.

In another trial that is scheduled to begin on November 3,

Njoroge's attorney Robert Clifford will be representing the

families of six more victims.

Boeing ( BA ) has settled more than 90% of the civil lawsuits

related to the two accidents, paying out billions of dollars in

compensation through lawsuits, a deferred prosecution agreement

and other payments, according to the company.

Boeing ( BA ) and the U.S. Justice Department asked a judge

earlier this month to approve an agreement that allows the

company to avoid prosecution, over objections from relatives of

some of the victims of the two crashes.

The agreement would enable Boeing ( BA ) to avoid being branded a

convicted felon and to escape oversight from an independent

monitor for three years. It was part of a plea deal struck in

2024 to a criminal fraud charge that it misled U.S. regulators

about a crucial flight 737 MAX control system which contributed

to the crashes.