The point is to get your claim in before the statute of limitations passes. If you don't, then that money will probably never be recovered. How CX choses to respond to the claims is up to them, but at least the claimants will have legal recourse going forward if CX declines to pay. I assume, then, that the AOA would file a class action suit against CX which would be easily won on the basis of legal precedent from the FAU's case.