FDD Items 3 & 4 · 2026 filing
Premier Pool Service / Pinnacle Pool Service litigation history
What Premier Pool Service / Pinnacle Pool Service disclosed about lawsuits, arbitrations and bankruptcy in the 2026 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
- $10K
- As stated in Item 3
- Bankruptcy (Item 4)
- None
- Franchisor, parent, predecessor or officer
- Filing year
- 2026
- Disclosures cover the prior ten years
Extracted from the 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document
Item 3: litigation
In the Matter of Investigation by Letitia James, Attorney General of the State of New York of Premier Franchise Management LLC and Paul Porter (AOD #21-068, October 2021). PFM and CEO Paul Porter entered into an Assurance of Discontinuance with New York regarding a franchise sold in December 2018 when PFM was not registered. PFM agreed to comply with New York Franchise Sales Act, refrain from offering franchises in New York until registered or exempted, offer rescission to the franchisee, and paid $10,000 in penalties and costs.
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?