FDD Items 3 & 4 · 2026 filing
Senior Helpers litigation history
What Senior Helpers 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
- 4
- Item 3, as counted in the filing
- Largest disclosed settlement
- $150K
- 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
Four disclosed matters: (1) Nienart v. SH Franchising/franchisee (NJ, 2016) - caregiver negligence claims, settled for $150,000; (2) Beck v. Foreman Care Corp./SH Franchising (IN, 2018) - negligent caregiving/property damage/theft claims, settled for $150,000; (3) WA Attorney General "no-poach" provisions investigation (2019) - resolved via Assurance of Discontinuance requiring removal of non-solicitation clauses nationwide; (4) Johns v. ACK Home Care/SH Franchising (OH, 2024) - FLSA/wage claims, settled by franchisee for $42,000 with no franchisor contribution.
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?