It's a brave pilot that risks his future employment chances by getting the reputation of being a litigious money chaser. If a pilot has suffered injury, loss of earnings or similar then fair enough but when he/she knows that the a controlled ditching is a predictable event for which he/she is trained for and the ditching was "by the book" without them getting too wet, a court case like this could, in my opinion, be held against them by a potential future employer.