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Commitments and Contingencies | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 29, 2012
Commitments and Contingencies | (11) Commitments and Contingencies At December 29, 2012, in addition to the $45,146,000 letters of credit secured by investments, Landstar had $32,754,000 of letters of credit outstanding under the Credit Agreement. As further described in periodic and current reports previously filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), the Company and certain of its subsidiaries (the “Defendants”) were defendants in a suit (the “Litigation”) brought in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida (the “District Court”) by the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, Inc. (“OOIDA”) and four former BCO Independent Contractors (the “Named Plaintiffs” and, with OOIDA, the “Plaintiffs”) on behalf of all independent contractors who provide truck capacity to the Company and its subsidiaries under exclusive lease arrangements (the “BCO Independent Contractors”). The initial complaint in the Litigation was filed on November 1, 2002. The Plaintiffs alleged that certain aspects of the Company’s motor carrier leases and related practices with its BCO Independent Contractors violated certain federal leasing regulations and sought injunctive relief, an unspecified amount of damages and attorneys’ fees. Following a second trial in August 2012 in which all claims against the Defendants were denied, the Litigation was settled in December 2012. Under the terms of the settlement, the Plaintiffs dismissed their remaining claims in the Litigation, each party agreed to bear its own costs and fees in the Litigation, the parties exchanged releases, and OOIDA made a contribution to the BCO Benevolence Fund, Inc., a non-profit corporation founded by the Company to provide financial assistance to BCO Independent Contractors in hardship situations. Also as further described in periodic and current reports previously filed by the Company with the SEC, in June 2011, Landstar System, Inc. received a Civil Investigative Demand (the “CID”) from the United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky (the “U.S. Attorney”) issued pursuant to a complaint (the “Complaint”) filed by a third party under the False Claims Act. The Company cooperated fully with the CID, which requested documents and answers to written interrogatories limited to freight hauled to or from Fort Campbell, Kentucky by certain subsidiaries of the Company and billed to the U.S. government. In November 2012, the Company was informed by the U.S. Attorney of the dismissal of the Complaint and the consent by the U.S. government to such dismissal. The Company believes this matter has been concluded. On September 23, 2011, a jury sitting in a state court in Cobb County, Georgia, entered a damage award of approximately $40.2 million (such amount, plus pre-judgment interest, post-judgment interest and a portion of plaintiffs’ attorney fees in an amount not yet determined are collectively referred to herein as the “Damage Award”) against Landstar Ranger, Inc., Landstar System Holdings, Inc. and Landstar System, Inc. While a judgment has been entered by the court on the verdict, execution on that judgment is stayed and no judgment has been entered on the pre-judgment interest claims and attorney fee claims due to the pendency of certain post-trial motions. The Damage Award arises out of an accident that occurred in February 2007 involving a BCO Independent Contractor leased to Landstar Ranger, Inc. Under the terms of the commercial trucking insurance program that Landstar had in place in 2007, Landstar retained liability for up to $5 million with respect to the accident giving rise to the Damage Award. Landstar has third party insurance and/or reinsurance policies in place that are expected to provide coverage for all amounts of the Damage Award in excess of such retention, including all related out-of-pocket expenses, such as the costs of an appeal bond, interest and attorney fees comprising the Damage Award that may be entered by the trial court or an appellate court in the future. The Company recorded a $5 million charge representing its self-insured retention in respect of this accident in the consolidated financial results of the Company in the 2007 first quarter. Accordingly, that portion of the Damage Award has been previously recorded by the Company and therefore did not reduce consolidated operating income or net income for the Company’s 2011 or 2012 fiscal years. Under the terms of the Company’s insurance policies, the Company is the primary obligor of the amount of the Damage Award, and as such, the Company has reported a $38.7 million receivable from the third party insurance providers in other receivables and a corresponding liability of the same amount in insurance claims in the consolidated balance sheets at December 29, 2012. The Company and its insurers have filed post-trial motions challenging the Damage Award and seeking a new trial and intend to appeal the Damage Award to the extent necessary following the resolution of those motions. No assurances can be given regarding the outcome of the pending motions or any such appeal, including as to the impact of the Damage Award on the premiums charged by the Company’s third party insurers from time to time for commercial trucking insurance. The Company is involved in certain claims and pending litigation, including those described herein, arising from the normal conduct of business. Based on knowledge of the facts and, in certain cases, opinions of outside counsel, management believes that adequate provisions have been made for probable losses with respect to the resolution of all such claims and pending litigation and that the ultimate outcome, after provisions therefor, will not have a material adverse effect on the financial condition of the Company, but could have a material effect on the results of operations in a given quarter or year.

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