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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001803737-24-000201"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "EHAB"
cik: "0001803737"
company_name: "Enhabit, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-12-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-29T08:52:01.575287+00:00"
event_type: "litigation"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Enhabit & Encompass win lawsuit; awarded 43% of VitalCaring Group profits

## Summary
- Court found three former officers and Vistria/Nautic aided egregious breaches of duty of loyalty.
- Constructive trust: Encompass/Enhabit get 43% of VitalCaring's quarterly profits and 43% of exit proceeds.
- Mitigation damages of ~$1.62M and attorneys' fees awarded due to defendants' bad-faith concealment.
- Misconduct involved secretly acquiring targets, using confidential info, and poaching employees for VitalCaring.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001803737-24-000201
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: EHAB
- cik: 0001803737
- company_name: Enhabit, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-12-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: litigation
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1803737/000180373724000201/0001803737-24-000201-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1803737/000180373724000201/ehab-20241204.htm

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