A Washington jury has awarded $16.9 million to the family of a man who was killed when a PenAir flight overran a runway in Alaska almost six years ago.
Law firm Miller Weisbrod Olesky, which represented the family of the late David Oltman, announced the verdict on Monday and said it far exceeded earlier settlement offers put forward by PenAir, now defunct, and its insurance carrier.
The case was the first fatal commercial airline crash to advance to a verdict by jury in more than two decades…