Edelson PC Pitches Way to Repay Lion Air Families’ Missing Money

Edelson PC has reached a proposed deal to compensate its former clients, family members of people killed when Lion Air flight 610 crashed in 2018, for more than $2 million in Boeing settlement funds misappropriated by Thomas Girardi and his now defunct law firm, Girardi Keese.

If approved, Edelson and its insurer, Hudson Property & Casualty, will reimburse the Lion Air families for the full amount of money they lost as a result of Girardi’s admitted mismanagement of the funds. In exchange, the clients will assign to Edelson any and all related claims they have against Girardi and others who ...