AIN Blog: MH17 Insurer Pledges Payments as Liability Questions Loom
The Montreal Convention prescribes war risk payments of $150,000 per passenger.
MH17's flight path took it just north of Donetsk before combatants in eastern Ukraine shot it down with a surface-to-air missile. (Map: FlightAware.com)
MH17's flight path took it just north of Donetsk before combatants in eastern Ukraine shot it down with a surface-to-air missile. (Map: FlightAware.com)

The lead insurer for Malaysia Airlines war risk hull coverage, London-based Atrium Underwriting Group, has agreed to settle its share of the latest hull loss suffered by Malaysia Airlines. Western military intelligence suggests that separatists in eastern Ukraine shot down Flight MH17 as it flew at 33,000 feet over a region near Donetsk, killing all 298 on board.