FDD Items 3 & 4 · 2025 filing
Relive Health litigation history
What Relive Health 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
- 3
- Item 3, as counted in the filing
- Largest settlement, franchisor's own cases
- $375K
- 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
Relive Franchising, LLC has been involved in three matters: (1) Maryland Consent Order (concluded March 26, 2024) - self-reported unregistered franchise sales, paid $7,500 civil penalty; (2) Minnesota Civil Penalty and Agreement (concluded March 26, 2024) - unregistered franchise sales, paid $1,000 investigative costs and offered rescission; (3) DJI Consulting LLC et al. v. Fit Medical Management, Inc. (pending) - Relive and DJI filed suit April 8, 2023 for breach of contract, service mark infringement, and trademark infringement. FMM counter-sued raising franchise law violations, fraudulent inducement, and other claims. Status indicates Motion to Dismiss was filed (document cuts off July 30, 2023).
Item 3 (litigation) · 3 matters disclosed
Litigation cases
The franchisor
Concluded (3)
DJI Consulting LLC et al. v. Fit Medical Management, Inc.
settledBrought against a franchisee · filed 2023-04-08 · S.D. Fla. · 2023-cv-14098-DMM
“… Case No. 2023-cv-14098-DMM (S.D. Fla.); Fit Medical Management, Inc. v. DJI Consulting LLC et al., Case No. 23000861CAXMX (Circuit Court of the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit, Martin County, FL)”Page 13 of the 2025 FDD, Item 3
Outcome: “Additionally, in line with principles of rescission, DJI agreed to compensate FMM with a sum of $375,000. This amount reflects an effort to restore FMM financially. Concurrent with this settlement, on November 20, 2023, all parties filed a joint stipulation for dismissal of all related actions, with prejudice, thereby concluding their legal disputes.” (page 14)
Within this matter, as the filing narrates it
Fit Medical Management, Inc. v. DJI Consulting LLC et al.
settledBrought by a franchisee · names the franchisor · Circuit Court of the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit, Martin County, FL · 23000861CAXMX
“… Case No. 23000861CAXMX (Circuit Court of the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit, Martin County, FL)”Page 13 of the 2025 FDD, Item 3
Outcome: “On July 30, 2023, after Relive filed a Motion to Dismiss arguing, among other things, that FMM did not have a basis for its claims against Relive, FMM filed its First Amended Answer, Affirmative Defenses, and Counterclaims dropping Relive as a Defendant.” (page 14)
Counted as one matter, the way Item 3 groups it.
Consent Order – In the Matter of Relive Franchising, LLC
concludedGovernment or regulatory action · Securities Division Office of the Attorney General Of Maryland · 2023 -0339
“In the Matter of Relive Franchising, LLC, Case No. 2023 -0339 (Securities Division Office of the Attorney General Of Maryland), entered into March 26, 2024. To address Relive Franchising, LLC’s (“Relive”) possible violation of the Maryland Franchise Registration and Disclosure Law”Page 13 of the 2025 FDD, Item 3
Outcome: “Pursuant to the terms of the Consent Order, Relive (i) paid a civil monetary penalty in the amount of $7,500 and (ii) notified its Maryland area representative that it may have a private right of action under the Maryland Franchise Law because Relive sold it an unregistered area representative franchise.”
In the matter of Determining Whether there has been a violation of Minn. Stat § 80C (2022)
concludedGovernment or regulatory action · Minnesota Commerce Department · File No. 80279
“… File No. 80279. On March 26, 2024, without trial or final adjudication of any issue of fact or law, and without admitting any violation of law, Relive Franchising, LLC voluntarily entered into a Civil Penalty and Agreement with the Minnesota Commerce Department (the “Department”)”Page 13 of the 2025 FDD, Item 3
Outcome: “Under the Civil Penalty and Agreement, Relive agreed to (i) comply with Minn. Stat § 80C (2022), (ii) to offer rescission of their agreements to a franchisee, who is a resident of Minnesota, and (3) to pay monetary relief to Minnesota in the amount of $1,000 in investigative costs.”
One proceeding above is indented under the matter it belongs to because the filing narrates them inside it — an appeal, a consolidated case, a related arbitration. Each carries its own quote and page. They are counted with their matter, not as extra matters, so this list and the 3 Item 3 discloses agree.
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
- 3 litigation matters on 25-unit system
The verdict grade is FranchiseVerdict's editorial assessment across SBA loan performance, unit growth, revenue and disclosure signals. It is not investment advice.
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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?