Between 2000 and 2001 , Baum and two other lawyers together represented about three-quarters of the Air France Flight 4590 crash victims ' families . In May 2001 , they reached a monetary settlement for compensation from Air France . According to people familiar with terms of the settlement , it was between $ 100 million and $ 125 million ( 114.1 million euros and 142.6 million euros ) , an extraordinarily high sum for a plane-crash settlement in Europe at the time
Air France Flight 4590
Air France Flight 4590
Gerhart Baum