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COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2025
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]  
COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
Certain conditions may exist as of the date the financial statements are issued which may result in a loss to the Company and which will only be resolved when one or more future events occur or fail to occur. Team’s management and its legal counsel assess such contingent liabilities, and such assessment inherently involves an exercise of judgment. In assessing loss contingencies related to legal proceedings that are pending against us or unasserted claims that may result in such proceedings, Team’s legal counsel evaluates the perceived merits of any legal proceedings or unasserted claims as well as the perceived merits of the amount of relief sought or expected to be sought therein.
If the assessment of a contingency indicates that it is probable that a material loss has been incurred and the amount of the liability can be estimated, then the estimated liability would be accrued in our financial statements. If the assessment indicates that a potentially material loss contingency is not probable, but is reasonably possible, or is probable but cannot be estimated, then the nature of the contingent liability, together with an estimate of the range of possible loss if determinable and material, would be disclosed.
Loss contingencies considered remote are generally not disclosed unless they involve guarantees, in which case the nature of the guarantee would be disclosed.
We accrue for contingencies where the occurrence of a material loss is probable and can be reasonably estimated, based on our best estimate of the expected liability. We may increase or decrease our legal accruals in the future, on a matter-by-matter basis, to account for developments in such matters. Because such matters are inherently unpredictable and unfavorable developments or outcomes can occur, assessing contingencies is highly subjective and requires judgments about future events. Notwithstanding the uncertainty as to the outcome and while our insurance coverage might not be available or adequate to cover these claims, based upon the information currently available, we do not believe that any uninsured losses that might arise from these lawsuits and proceedings will have a materially adverse effect on our condensed consolidated financial statements.
Kelli Most Litigation - On November 13, 2018, Kelli Most filed a lawsuit against Team Industrial Services, Inc., individually and as a personal representative of the estate of Jesse Henson, in the 268th District Court of Fort Bend County, Texas (the “Most litigation”). The complaint asserted claims against Team for negligence resulting in the wrongful death of Jesse Henson. A jury trial commenced on this matter on May 4, 2021. On June 1, 2021, the jury rendered a verdict against Team for $222.0 million in compensatory damages.
On January 25, 2022, the trial court signed a final judgment in favor of the plaintiff and against Team Industrial Services, Inc. We appealed the trial court’s judgment to the Texas First Court of Appeals.
On May 16, 2024, the Texas First Court of Appeals issued a decision which vacated the trial court’s judgment and dismissed the case, holding that the trial court erred in refusing to dismiss the case on forum non conveniens grounds. The plaintiff filed a motion with the Texas First Court of Appeals for rehearing and a motion for en banc reconsideration, which was denied by the Court of Appeals on October 3, 2024. The plaintiff did not seek review with the Texas Supreme Court. On March 5, 2025, the plaintiff re-filed a lawsuit against the Company in the U.S. District Court, Kansas District in Kansas City. We currently have accrued a liability of $39.0 million as of March 31, 2025 in other accrued liabilities, and have recorded a related receivable from our third-party insurance providers in other current assets in the same amount. Such amounts are treated as non-cash operating activities. The Most litigation is covered by our general liability and excess insurance policies which are occurrence based and subject to an aggregate $3.0 million self-insured retention and deductible. All retentions and deductibles have been met, and accordingly, we believe pending the final settlement, all further claims will be fully funded by our insurance policies. We will continue to evaluate the possible outcomes of this case in light of future developments and their potential impact on factors relevant to our assessment of any possible loss.
Notice of repayment of pandemic related government subsidies - In response to widespread COVID-19 health pandemics, certain of our entities based in foreign jurisdictions received governmental funding assistance to compensate for a portion of employee wages between March 2020 and March 2022. Following ongoing compliance reviews of these funding assistance programs, we received notices stating noncompliance with the requirements of one of these funding assistance programs. Accordingly, based on the assessments completed by the government appointed administrative authority, we previously had accrued $5.5 million as of December 31, 2023, to be repaid over an extended period related to this noncompliance. However, during the year ended December 31, 2024, we successfully appealed $3.8 million of the assessment, which resulted in the reduction of the accrued liability to $1.7 million as of March 31, 2025.
Accordingly, for all matters discussed within this Note 13 - Commitments and Contingencies, we have accrued in the aggregate approximately $40.7 million as of March 31, 2025, of which approximately $1.7 million is not covered by our various insurance policies.
In addition to legal matters discussed above, we are subject to various lawsuits, claims and proceedings encountered in the normal conduct of business (“Other Proceedings”). Management believes that based on its current knowledge and after
consultation with legal counsel that the Other Proceedings, individually or in the aggregate, will not have a material effect on our condensed consolidated financial statements.