This isn't about ethics and morality and personalities and pedigrees; it's about contracts and law.

No matter what the pedigree or personality traits (or lack thereof) of the plaintiffs, they have a right to whatever compensation is specified in whatever contracts they signed.

Ditto no matter how small (or big) Green Linnet is and no matter how nice (or nasty) the people who run the company are.

This is also the 3rd millennium and the rules seem to have changed. Trying to get a case tried in the press has become pretty standard at least in the States. It's just a move in a legal chess game. One reason being that "properly allowing the justice system to decide who, if anyone, is at fault" might, at best, eventually benefit their grandchildren.

I am personally taking a wait and see attitude, but the people I have talked to personally suggest that such a lawsuit, if it exists, might have some justification.