Remember that any judgement rendered by a court of law in the US will appear on your credit report. When/if you try to obtain financing for a car, house, boat, motorcycle, get a credit card, personal loan etc. That judgement will have a great negative impact on your ability to get future credit or financing. When/if you ever pay the judgement it will remain on your credit for another 7-10 years unless you go through a painful process with the credit agencies to have it removed.

You have gotten a lot of advice here from a lot of people. Maybe some are attorneys, maybe not. If you are a member of AOPA legal services plan, this would be an excellent situation to use your phone call options to get some legal advice about your specific contract.

You can be sued for anything. Doesn't matter if it is a training cost, lost profits, dmage to the sheep skin seat from crackin #ss, or walking funny across the ramp. Whether or not any suit will hold up in court (if it got that far) is another matter. Fact is, you can be sued and your only alternative is to hire a lawyer to draft a response to the complaint. It might end there, it might not. At this point in your career you don't need the stress of wondering. Get some legal advice before you proceed. You certainly don't want to get pushed around, but you also don't want to be involved in even a frivolous law suit at this point.