Perhaps she will aggressively pursue everyone she thinks is responsible for the deaths of her husband and daughter, but this could also just be a mechanism to get all the insurance companies engaged.
Bingo: being a non-driver injured in a serious car accident that racked up quite a medical expense, the insurance companies delay, delay, delay. By the time the insurance company determines how much you are "entitled" to, it is too late for outside pressure to change their assessment. An attorney is really the only form of advocacy in this case, and the other party/parties need a lawsuit brought against them in order for the insurance company to take action and negotiate a fair settlement.
I can also see Kobe's insurance company considering this a risky act and contesting they are not subject to paying out the full policy to his family, and therefore Vanessa has to demonstrate through the filings that no, Kobe did not put a gun to the pilot's head. To fly was the pilot's decision alone, and a mix of poor judgment by him, substandard helicopter instruments, and an "act of god" caused the accident...not a brazenly unsafe decision by Kobe himself.
I wouldn't be surprised if this has more to do with Kobe's family being potentially denied damages from their insurance companies than any action directly against others. However a side effect may be that the helicopter maker is the deepest pocket and therefore the Bryants and the other families affected can also get a judgment from them. It just seems counter-intuitive that the whole event yesterday was plastered with promotions to donate to the fund for the non-Bryant families affected by the tragedy, then Vanessa turns around and crushes the pilot's family.
