RELIABILITY INC 10-Q

Item 1. Legal Proceedings On or about February 25, 2020, the Company, as plaintiff, filed a complaint with the Circuit Court of Montgomery County, Maryland against Vivos Holdings, LLC, Vivos Real Estate Holdings, LLC and Dr. Doki, to enforce Maslow’s rights under certain promissory notes and a personal guarantee made by the defendants. On August 9, 2021, Reliability filed an additional claim in the Debt Collection Suit and Vivos Default Counterclaim in the Circuit Court of Montgomery County, Maryland against Dr. Doki, Valleru, Mr. Pathuri, Mrs. Janumpally, Igly, and Judos, that the Respondents breached the Merger Agreement in a number of significant respects and committed fraud in connection with the Merger. On September 7, 2021, the Company entered in Arbitration and Tolling Agreements with alleged shareholder Dr. Doki. and his affiliates and all other persons who were parties to the pending litigation previously reported in the Texas, New York and Maryland courts and before the American Arbitration Association. The Agreements call for the stay or dismissal of the pending litigation, with the parties agreeing to resolve their disputes before a single arbitrator in Maryland. The parties also agreed to maintain the status quo in corporate governance and related matters pending a final non-appealable judgment confirming any award in arbitration. The parties also signed a Tolling Agreement to toll the statute of limitations following the dismissal of a pending litigation. On August 2, 2022, VREH filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection in the District Court of Maryland. This action prevented the Arbitrator from providing any ruling relating to Note II in the arbitration case at the time of his award. On August 24 , 2022, the Company filed a motion to stay the VREH Bankruptcy filing to allow the Arbitrator to rule on the claims against VREH. The motion to lift the stay was granted by the court on September 16, 2022, after the initial award by the Arbitrator. On August 31, 2022, the Arbitrator issued an award (the “Award”) with the Company with MMG prevailing on their claims. The Company and MMG were awarded the following: ● an award in favor of MMG against Vivos Holdings, LLC under Note I (as defined in the Award) in the amount of $3,458,377, with interest thereon from June 30, 2022, at the rate of 4.5% per year; ● no award as to Note II (as defined in the Award) until and at such time as the automatic stay imposed by the United States Bankruptcy Court as a result of the filing of a petition in bankruptcy by VREH is lifted or the bankruptcy proceeding is terminated; ● an award in favor of MMG against Vivos Holdings, LLC under Note III (as defined in the Award) in the amount of $800,448, with interest thereon from June 30, 2022, at the rate of 2.5% per year, plus collection costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, incurred in the effort to collect Note III; ● an award in favor of MMG against Naveen under the Personal Guaranty (as defined in the Award) in the amount of $2,309,449, plus interest thereon at the rate of 6% per year from the date of the Award; ● an award in favor of the Company against Naveen, Valleru, Janumpally, individually and as Trustee of Judos Trust, and Pathuri, as Trustee of Igly Trust, jointly and severally, for contract damages of $1,000,000, to be satisfied by the transfer of their shares of the Company common stock to the Company equal in value to $1,000,000, valued as of the date of the Award, in accordance with the provisions of Section 9.06(d) of the Merger Agreement; ● an award in favor of the Company against Naveen, Valleru, Janumpally, individually and as Trustee of Judos Trust, and Pathuri, as Trustee of Igly Trust, jointly and severally, for fraud damages in the amount of $4,327,127, plus interest thereon at the rate of 6% per year from the date of the Award, together with any out-of-pocket fees and expenses, including attorneys’ and accountants’ fees; 22 ● an award appointing a rehabilitative receiver for the Company under the deadlock situation provisions of Section 11.404(a)(1)(B) of the Texas Business Organizations Code, the primary function of which is to collect the contract and fraud damages, including costs, expenses and fees provided in the Award, due to the Company, with matters regarding such receivership to be set forth in a supplemental award; and ● declaratory relief in favor of the Company and its officers and directors. Section 11.404(a)(1)(B) of the Texas Business Organizations Code provides for the appointment of a rehabilitative receiver when “the governing persons of the entity are deadlocked in the management of the entity’s affairs, the owners or members of the entity are unable to break the deadlock, and irreparable injury to the entity is being suffered or is threatened because of the deadlock.” With respect to the receivership, the owners or holders of all of the shares of common stock of the Company received as a result of the conversion of 1,600 shares of common stock of MMG owed by Naveen and Valleru under the Merger Agreement shall not be entitled to vote any of those shares at any annual or special meeting of the shareholders of the Company during the period of the receivership. Upon the completion of the receiver’s primary function of collecting damages due to the Company, the receivership shall terminate and the restrictions on the rights of the shareholders of the Company imposed by the Award shall be lifted. The parties to the Arbitration had until September 19, 2022 to submit their requests related to the Supplemental Award to be filed by the Arbitrator relating to the assignment of a Receiver. An extension was granted until October 6, 2022 at which point all parties submitted their requests to the Arbitrator. The parties now have until November 23, 2022 to respond to the submissions received by the Arbitrator on October 6, 2022. The Company does not have a definitive date by which it will receive the supplemental award identified in the Arbitration Award dated August 31, 2022, but hopes it will be received before the end of the year. The following legal proceedings where Vivos Group borrowings impacting MMG: Healthcare Resource Network Complaint: On or about February 25, 2020, the Company, as plaintiff, filed a complaint with the Circuit Court of Montgomery County, Maryland against Vivos Holdings, LLC, Vivos Real Estate Holdings, LLC and Dr. Doki, to enforce MMG’s rights under certain promissory notes and a personal guarantee made by the defendants. The case is proceeding. The Company believes that it will be granted a judgment in its favor. MMG intends to continue to vigorously pursue this litigation. On September 3, 2020, MMG and HCRN entered into a Tolling Agreement pursuant to which HCRN dismissed MMG from this litigation without prejudice and agreed to forebear filing a new complaint or initiating any lawsuit or other legal proceeding against MMG until January 31, 2022. On or about May 5, 2020, Kinetic Direct Funding domesticated a foreign judgement in the Montgomery County Circuit Court system again Health Care Resources Network (HCRN), Maslow Media Group, US IT Solutions Inc., 360 IT Professionals, Alliance Micro, Inc. and Dr. Doki. This foreign judgement from the State of New York relates to loans the Vivos Group took out by adding Maslow Media Group as additional collateral. This loan is currently in default. Foreign Judgement total is $579. There was a settlement reached on October 1,2021 with both parties releasing each other of any and all claims with no assets changing hands. MMG needs to determine which lien releases have been filed. On July 21, 2021, MMG came to an agreement with Kinetic and Libertas for $475 to release MMG from being obligated to this Vivos Group debt. The intended shield to protect MMG from having to pay Vivos Group’s debt was the aforementioned Liquidation Agreement which Vivos Debtors refuse to comply with. On August 2, 2022, VREH filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection in the District Court of Maryland. This action prevented the Arbitrator from providing any ruling relating to Note II in the arbitration case at the time of his award On August 24 , 2022, the company filed a motion to stay the VREH Bankruptcy filing to allow the Arbitrator to rule on the claims against VREH. The motion to lift the stay was granted by the court on September 16, 2022, after the initial award by the Arbitrator 23