Most of the civil cases were settled out of court, but there are still about a dozen ongoing. In one, an eight-person jury in Chicago will decide damages. A point of contention is whether passengers suffered pain in their final moments. Due to the way "pain and suffering" damages work, this is likely to have substantial bearing on the result.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/civil-trial-737-max-cras...
Does that mean from a manufacturer perspective it's less costly if your faulty plane kills people quickly, like a bug being splatted, rather than hanging on longer and putting passengers through a grueling ordeal? In a sense, does that create somewhat perverse incentives? Or is this a pretty unique scenario due to the nature of the malfunction and its direct involvement on G-forces passengers experienced prior to the crash?