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Legal and Environmental Matters
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2018
Loss Contingency [Abstract]  
Legal and Environmental Matters
Legal and Environmental Matters

We are involved in litigation and claims incidental to our current and prior businesses. We provide accruals for such litigation and claims when payment is probable and reasonably estimable. We cannot estimate the aggregate possible range of loss due to most proceedings being in preliminary stages, with various motions either yet to be submitted or pending, discovery yet to occur and significant factual matters unresolved. In addition, most cases seek an indeterminate amount of damages and many involve multiple parties. Predicting the outcomes of settlement discussions or judicial or arbitral decisions is thus inherently difficult and future developments could cause these actions or claims, individually or in aggregate, to have a material adverse effect on the Company’s financial condition, results of operations, or cash flows of a particular reporting period.

We previously described certain legal proceedings in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on February 28, 2018. The Company was previously named as a defendant in putative class action lawsuits alleging, among other things, that the Company failed to safeguard customer credit card information and failed to provide notice that credit card information had been compromised.  Jonathan Torres and other consumers filed an action in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida (the “Torres Case”). The operative complaint seeks to certify a nationwide class of consumers, or in the alternative, statewide classes of consumers for Florida, New York, New Jersey, Texas and Tennessee, as well as statewide classes of consumers under those states’ consumer protection and unfair trade practices laws. Certain financial institutions have also filed class action lawsuits in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, which seek to certify a nationwide class of financial institutions that issued payment cards that were allegedly impacted.  Those cases were consolidated into a single case (the “FI Case”). In the Torres Case and FI Case, the plaintiffs seek monetary damages, injunctive and equitable relief, attorneys’ fees and other costs. On August 23, 2018, the court preliminarily approved class settlement in the Torres case.  A final approval hearing of the Torres settlement is scheduled for February 25, 2019.  On August 27, 2018, the Company filed a motion for judgment on the pleadings in the FI Case, seeking dismissal of the plaintiffs’ negligence and negligence per se claims under Ohio law. That motion is pending before the court. Discovery as between the parties in the FI Case is stayed while settlement discussions are occurring.