FDD Items 3 & 4 · 2025 filing

Mosquito Authority litigation history

What Mosquito Authority 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 (litigation) & 4 (bankruptcy) at a glance

What the filing discloses

Cases disclosed: 5; Item 3, as counted in the filing

Largest settlement, franchisor's own cases: $20K; 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

All concluded actions by predecessor TMA: 2013 Maryland consent order, 2013 Rhode Island consent agreement, 2015 Virginia settlement order, 2017 Minnesota consent order (all unregistered franchise sales). Plus affiliated Soccer Shots Franchising 2019 Washington no-poaching assurance of discontinuance. No pending litigation.

Item 3 (litigation) · 5 matters disclosed

Litigation cases

The franchisor and its predecessor

Concluded (4)

In the Matter of TMA Franchise Systems, Inc.
concluded
Government or regulatory action · TMA Franchise Systems, Inc. · Securities Division of the Office of the Attorney General of Maryland · 2013-0198
“… Case No. 2013-0198. On August 21, 2013, TMA entered into a Consent Order with the Securities Division of the Office of the Attorney General of Maryland to resolve alleged violations of the Maryland Franchise Registration and Disclosure Law.”Page 11 of the 2025 FDD, Item 3
In the Matter of TMA Franchise Systems, Inc. d/b/a The Mosquito Authority
concluded
Government or regulatory action · TMA Franchise Systems, Inc. · Minnesota Department of Commerce · 47341
“… Case No. File No. 47341. On August 11, 2017, TMA entered into a Consent Order with the Minnesota Department of Commerce to resolve allegations that TMA offered and sold an unregistered franchise in Minnesota in violation of Minn. Stat. § 80C.02 (2016).”Page 12 of the 2025 FDD, Item 3
Outcome: “By the terms of the Consent Order, TMA agreed to pay a monetary penalty of $1,000 to the Department of Commerce, disclose this Consent Order in this Franchise Disclosure Document for a period of one year, and cease and desist from further sales in Minnesota until registered.”
In the Matter of TMA Franchise Systems, Inc. d/b/a The Mosquito Authority and Joseph D. Osborne
settled
Government or regulatory action · TMA Franchise Systems, Inc. · Virginia State Corporation Commission Division of Securities and Retail Franchising · SEC-2015-00002
“… Case No. SEC-2015-00002.”Page 12 of the 2025 FDD, Item 3
Outcome: “By the terms of the Settlement Order, TMA agreed to pay a monetary penalty of $20,000 and administrative costs of $2,500 to the Division, provide a copy of the Order to each Virginia franchisee, and refrain from violating the Virginia Franchise Act in the future.”
In the Matter of TMA Franchising, Inc.
concluded
Government or regulatory action · TMA Franchise Systems, Inc. · Rhode Island Department of Business Regulation
“… On October 9, 2013, TMA entered into a Consent Agreement with the Rhode Island Department of Business Regulation to resolve alleged violations of the Rhode Island Franchise Investment Act.”Page 12 of the 2025 FDD, Item 3
Outcome: “By the terms of the Consent Agreement, TMA agreed to submit an initial franchise application in accordance with Rhode Island franchise law, provide an offer of rescission to the two Rhode Island franchisees, and pay an administrative fee of $5,000 to the Rhode Island Department of Business Regulation.”

Parent, affiliates, master franchisor and subfranchisor

Concluded (1)

In Re: Franchise No Poaching Provisions (Soccer Shots Franchising, LLC)
concluded
Government or regulatory action · Soccer Shots Franchising, LLC · filed 2019-10-28 · State of Washington (Attorney General) · 19-2- 28301-7 SEA
“… Case N0. 19-2- 28301-7 SEA. On or about October 28, 2019, Soccer Shots Franchising, LLC entered into an Assurance of Discontinuance with the State of Washington in which Soccer Shots Franchising, LLC agreed it (1) will no longer include no-poaching provisions in any future U.S. franchise agreements;”Page 12 of the 2025 FDD, Item 3

Item 3 lists the litigation the franchisor must disclose; a matter against a parent, an affiliate or a named officer is not a matter against the franchisor, and pending claims are allegations, not findings.

Disclosure signals that moved the score

How this shows up in the verdict

No-poaching litigation with affiliate Soccer Shots suggests potential franchisor labor practice concerns or restrictive covenant enforcement

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?

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