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Legal and Environmental Matters
9 Months Ended
Oct. 01, 2017
Loss Contingency [Abstract]  
Legal and Environmental Matters
Legal and Environmental Matters

We are involved in litigation and claims incidental to our current and prior businesses. We provide accruals for such litigation and claims when payment is probable and reasonably estimable. As of October 1, 2017, the Company had accruals for all of its legal and environmental matters aggregating $1,639. We cannot estimate the aggregate possible range of loss due to most proceedings, including those described below, being in preliminary stages, with various motions either yet to be submitted or pending, discovery yet to occur and significant factual matters unresolved. In addition, most cases seek an indeterminate amount of damages and many involve multiple parties. Predicting the outcomes of settlement discussions or judicial or arbitral decisions is thus inherently difficult. Based on currently available information, including legal defenses available to us, and given the aforementioned accruals and our insurance coverage, we do not believe that the outcome of these legal and environmental matters will have a material effect on our consolidated financial position or results of operations.

We previously described certain legal proceedings under Note 14 to our Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements in our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the second quarter of 2017, as filed with the SEC on August 9, 2017. Except as set forth below, there were no material developments in those legal proceedings during the third quarter of 2017.

As previously reported, the Company has been named as a defendant in putative class action lawsuits alleging, among other things, that the Company failed to safeguard customer credit card information and failed to provide notice that credit card information had been compromised.  Jonathan Torres and other consumers filed an action in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida (the “Torres case”). The operative complaint seeks to certify a nationwide class of consumers, or in the alternative, statewide classes of consumers for Florida, New York, New Jersey, Texas, and Tennessee, as well as statewide classes of consumers under those states’ consumer protection and unfair trade practices laws. On October 27, 2017, the Company moved to dismiss the operative complaint. The Company’s motion is pending before the court.