Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-10-29
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001410636-25-000173
Chunk: 102

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-10-29
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
Chunk 102
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 admitted, and will not admit, any fault or liability for any of the allegations made by the Jeffries plaintiffs. The maximum pre-tax amount of the Dunbar Settlement is approximately $18 million, and the final amount of the Company’s and WVAWC’s contributions to the Dunbar Settlement is expected to be $5 million, with the remainder being contributed by certain of the Company’s general liability insurance carriers. The actual total amount to be paid to claimants through the Dunbar Settlement will depend upon the claims approved through the claims process, and WVAWC has paid approximately $2 million as of September 30, 2025. The deadline for claims submissions was August 25, 2025, and the settlement administrator is evaluating claim submissions to identify compensable claims. As a result of the foregoing, the Company has maintained as of September 30, 2025 its previously recorded charge to earnings, net of expected insurance receivables, of $5.0 million ($3.9 million after-tax). The Company intends to fund its and WVAWC’s contributions to the Dunbar Settlement through existing sources of liquidity.Chattanooga, Tennessee Class Action LitigationOn September 12, 2019, the Company’s Tennessee subsidiary (“TAWC”), experienced a leak in a 36-inch water transmission main, which caused service fluctuations or interruptions to TAWC customers and the issuance of a boil water notice. TAWC repaired the main by early morning on September 14, 2019, and restored full water service by the afternoon of September 15, 2019, with the boil water notice lifted for all customers on September 16, 2019.On September 17, 2019, a complaint captioned Bruce, et al. v. American Water Works Company, Inc., et al. was filed in the Circuit Court of Hamilton County, Tennessee against TAWC, the Company and American Water Works Service Company, Inc. (“Service Company” and, together with TAWC and the Company, collectively, the “Tennessee-American Water Defendants”), on behalf of a proposed class of individuals or entities who lost water service or suffered monetary losses as a result of the Chattanooga incident (the “Tennessee Plaintiffs”). The complaint alleged breach of contract and negligence against the Tennessee-American Water Defendants, as well as an equitable remedy of piercing the corporate veil. In the complaint as originally filed, the Tennessee Plaintiffs were seeking an award of unspecified alleged damages for wage losses, business and economic losses, out-of-pocket