Expanding Case Tracker email notification to happen on status update

I need to find a way to expand Case Tracker email notification to include notification on status updates, ideally very soon (isn't that what they all say...). Having combed this site for info I'm aware that email notification happens only in the case of new comments by design. I have also looked into the alternatives and apart form this lack, CT seems to be doing the job. I know some php and have spent the day looking through the CT modules but have been lagging behind as OO php becomes more ubiquitous, and thus, at least for now, find I pretty much suck in the context of Drupal php coding. I would greatly appreciate any pointers re: attempting to add this functionality-like could I just remove the check for whether the event triggering the email is a comment? Is it possible to do this as a theme function override? Should I just forget it? ...or any other input would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks much...