If the Schindlers had left it alone, the end of the malpractice suit would have been the end of it. Period. I'm beginning to think that you're being deliberately obtuse.
THEY were the ones to start the whole circus. Try actually reading a timeline of events sometime. The malpractice suit has ZERO to do with the Schindlers' petitioning for guardianship, etc, etc, etc.
Unless - as I metioned - you're saing that they only got involved to get their hands on the money. That would be the ONLY way the malpractice settlement had anything to do with the next three steps in the whole circus - which were initiated by the Schindlers.
I believe Mike petitioned the court for permission to schedule a natural death by dehydration, and the cases mushroomed from there.
Who, after all, would force the losing party to pay?!
Please don't confound the "circus" with government involvement!