Company: HOUS
Filing Date: 2025-02-25
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001398987-25-000020
Chunk: 300

Company: Anywhere Real Estate Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-25
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 300
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, LLC and others. Plaintiffs seek relief on behalf of a National Do Not Call Registry class, an Internal Do Not Call class, and an Artificial or Prerecorded Message class. 

F-41

In January 2025, the Company entered into a settlement of the case, which remains subject to preliminary and final approval of the court, pursuant to which it will pay $20 million. The court’s preliminary approval hearing for the settlement is currently scheduled for February 27, 2025. OtherExamples of other legal matters involving the Company may include but are not limited to:•antitrust and anti-competition claims, including claims alleging exclusionary conduct or boycotts, among others;•TCPA claims;•claims alleging violations of RESPA, state consumer fraud statutes, federal consumer protection statutes or other state real estate law violations;•employment law claims, including claims that independent residential real estate sales agents engaged by our company owned brokerages or by affiliated franchisees—under certain state or federal laws—are potentially employees instead of independent contractors, and they or regulators therefore may bring claims against our Owned Brokerage Group for breach of contract, wage and hour classification claims, wrongful discharge, unemployment and workers' compensation and could seek benefits, back wages, overtime, indemnification, penalties related to classification practices and expense reimbursement available to employees or make similar claims against Franchise Group as an alleged joint employer of an affiliated franchisee’s independent sales agents;•other employment law matters, including other types of worker classification claims as well as wage and hour claims and retaliation claims;•claims alleging violations of consumer protection laws;•claims regarding non-competition, non-solicitation and restrictive covenants together with claims of tortious interference and other improper recruiting conduct;•information privacy and security claims, including claims under new and emerging data privacy laws related to the protection of customer, employee or third-party information, claims related to the implementation of various consumer opt-out rights, and claims under biometric data laws such as the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act;•cyber-crime claims, including claims related to the diversion of homesale transaction closing funds; •vicarious or joint liability claims based upon the conduct of individuals or entities traditionally outside of our control, including franchisees and independent sales agents, under joint employer claims or other theories of actual or apparent agency;•claims by current or former franchisees that franchise agreements were breached, including improper terminations;•claims generally against the company owned brokerage operations for negligence, misrepresentation or breach of fiduci