FDD Items 3 & 4 · 2025 filing
Interstate All Battery Center litigation history
What Interstate All Battery Center disclosed about lawsuits, arbitrations and bankruptcy in the 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document. Item 3 lists the material legal actions a franchisor must report; Item 4 covers bankruptcy. This is the franchisor's own disclosure, not a court record, and not legal advice.
Items 3 & 4 at a glance
What the filing discloses
- Cases disclosed
- 1
- Item 3, as counted in the filing
- Largest disclosed settlement
- $16K
- As stated in Item 3
- Bankruptcy (Item 4)
- None
- Franchisor, parent, predecessor or officer
- Filing year
- 2025
- Disclosures cover the prior ten years
Extracted from the 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document
Item 3: litigation
One case: IBFAD v. Charging Bison, LLC (JAMS arbitration, 2016-2019). Franchisor-initiated arbitration against franchisee alleging fraudulent FDD disclosures; settled April 2019 with mutual termination, IBFAD paid $15,932.43 and purchased franchisee inventory/equipment for $199,000.
Disclosure signals that moved the score
How this shows up in the verdict
- 2016-2019 litigation involving false financial performance disclosures creates direct credibility concerns about franchisor transparency
- Going Concern = False on FDD indicates potential financial instability or operational uncertainty at franchisor level
- Settlement terms show franchisor repurchasing inventory/equipment at $199,000, suggesting franchisee financial distress and possible system weakness
The verdict grade is FranchiseVerdict's editorial assessment across SBA loan performance, unit growth, revenue and disclosure signals. It is not investment advice.
Before you weigh a lawsuit
How to read Item 3
A franchisor must disclose pending actions and any material civil action involving the franchise relationship, plus convictions or civil judgments for fraud, unfair or deceptive practices, or franchise-law violations, going back ten years. A case the franchisor brought against a franchisee counts too. Item 3 does not include every dispute: settled claims below the materiality line and matters resolved in private arbitration can be absent.
Questions worth asking current and former franchisees, using the contact list in Item 20:
- Were you, or anyone you know in the system, party to a dispute with the franchisor?
- Was it resolved by settlement, arbitration or a court, and on what terms?
- Has the number of disputes gone up or down since you signed?