FDD Items 3 & 4 · 2025 filing
Sunoco Retail LLC – Area Representative Program litigation history
What Sunoco Retail LLC – Area Representative Program 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
- 2
- Item 3, as counted in the filing
- Largest disclosed settlement
- $2.3M
- 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
Two matters disclosed. Pending: Sunoco (R&M), LLC and Sunoco, LLC v. Pennsylvania National Mutual Casualty Insurance Co., Greyhound Aramingo Petroleum Co., and Sergey Gorlov (breach of contract/indemnification over a 2014 gas-station accident; trial court awarded Sunoco a $2,288,802.76 verdict against Greyhound; cross-appeals pending in PA Superior Court). Completed: Kiran Park Newsstand Inc. v. Sunoco, Inc. (EDNY interpleader over an $79,218.01 security deposit; Sunoco dismissed with prejudice in 2018).
Disclosure signals that moved the score
How this shows up in the verdict
- Going concern status is FALSE, indicating potential financial instability or uncertainty at franchisor level
- Active litigation involving breach of contract and personal injury liability creates legal and reputational risk
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?