LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
−Removed: or about February 4, 2020 Singing Machine was named in a product liability complaint alongside Target and Energizer Brands in
−Removed: the state of Missouri.
−Removed: It is alleged by the Plaintiff, an individual, that one of Singing Machine’s karaoke products injured
−Removed: the plaintiff while she was operating the product from battery power.
−Removed: Plaintiff alleges her injury occurred when battery acid
−Removed: leaked from the karaoke product.
−Removed: The plaintiff purchased the karaoke machine at Target and operated the karaoke machine with Energizer
−Removed: Plaintiff is suing both Singing Machine and Energizer because she is unsure whether the karaoke product or the batteries
−Removed: caused the battery acid leak.
−Removed: plaintiff alleges four counts of action against Singing Machine including strict product liability, negligence, breach of warranty,
−Removed: and failure to warn.
−Removed: Singing Machine has product liability insurance and the matter has been turned over the matter to insurance
−Removed: company’s counsel in defending the matter.
−Removed: The Company does not believe that the resolution
−Removed: of this matter is likely to have a material adverse effect on the Company’s financial condition, results of operations or
−Removed: of August 12, 2020 management is not aware of any other legal proceedings other than matters that arise in the ordinary course
+Added: September 11, 2020 a Complaint was filed against the Company’s SMCL subsidiary and various staffing agencies used by SMCL in a
+Added: Superior Court of San Bernadino County.
+Added: The complaint alleges an employee of SMCL committed employment practice violations against a
+Added: former temporary employee not employed by SMCL.
+Added: Management has investigated the allegation and has engaged with an employment attorney
+Added: to defend the lawsuit.
+Added: Management does not believe the claims have merit and does not believe the lawsuit will have a material adverse
+Added: effect on our financial results.
+Added: of this filing management is not aware of any other legal proceedings other than matters that arise in the ordinary course of business.
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Compared sentence by sentence after normalising whitespace, quotation marks, case and digits, so re-formatting and restated figures do not read as changed language. Wording changes appear as one removal and one addition. The current filing and the prior one are authoritative.