Most US lawsuits, and most UK ones of this kind, are designed to get an out of court settlement.
For example any employee of a UK company can pick up about £20k (tax free) by doing certain fairly obvious things. Sexual harrassment is the most obvious one.
However it's possible that the devil is in the detail i.e. what exactly did
The result of the case hinges on the jury's belief that that the pilot had purchased and was promised training that he did not receive and that his lack of that training was a direct factor in the crash.
mean?
If I sell you a plane, with the price "including type specific training", but somehow you get your hands on the keys and manage to fly off before having had
all the training, would you necessarily know that you had received only some of it? It would depend on the details of the contract and how obvious it was to the pilot that he has only a part of it.
It's tricky, because legally you can fly a Cirrus on a plain PPL done in a C150. No type specific training is required. You just need a HP signoff. Insurance may be the exception in the USA but not in the UK where IME they just want a diff training signoff from an instructor.
I guess that somehow the school was left exposed because they didn't draft the paperwork carefully.
Cirrus cannot be blamed but again it's possible they left their back door open by advertising some kind of type specific training as being included in the selling price of the plane.