I'm sure that any worthwhile lawyer making a compensation claim on behalf of those affected will now include 100% of the exisiting widows' pension to the claim, in case MoD tries to stop paying it after settlement?
One of my suspicions concerning the Chinook Mull of Kintyre scandal is that, if the unjust 'gross negligence' verdict had NOT been made by Wratten and Day, then MoD could have been faced with much higher claims from the bereaved. Whether a case of corporate manslaughter could have been levied against the MoD for allowing an aircraft with known serviceability issues to be used for inessential passenger transport flying, I do not know.....
Good luck, nigegilb et al.; there must be some top level squirming going on up in Town.