Legal & controls
Item 3 and Item 9A as filed · every verdict is the registrant’s own sentence, printed below it · a filing that fails an extraction gate reads “not extracted”
| Fiscal year | Filed | Item 3 | ICFR | disclosure controls | material weakness | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 2026-02-27 | described here | not extracted | effective | none in Item 9A | EDGAR |
Item 3 · We are involved in ordinary routine litigation incidental to our operations. These lawsuits primarily involve claims for workers’ compensation, wage and hour law violations, personal injury or property damage incurred in the transportation of freight. Based on our present knowledge of the facts and, in certain cases, advice of outside counsel, management believes the resolution of open claims and pending litigation, taking into account existing reserves, is not likely or probable to have a materially adverse effect on our consolidated financial statements; however, the final disposition of these matters and the impact of such final dispositions cannot be determined at this time. As such, future liability claims or adverse developments in existing claims could have a materially adverse effect on our consolidated financial statements. Information is provided below for such existing claims, with the eventual outcome for each claim dependent on the results of additional discovery, future court rulings, and potentially trial and appeal. Marten intends to continue to vigorously defend itself in each matter. On July 8, 2020, a lawsuit was filed against Marten Transport, Ltd. on behalf of… Item 9A · disclosure controls · Based upon that evaluation, our Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer and our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of December 31, 2025. | ||||||
| 2024-12-31 | 2025-02-28 | as filed | not extracted | effective | none in Item 9A | EDGAR |
Item 3 · We are involved in ordinary routine litigation incidental to our operations. These lawsuits primarily involve claims for workers’ compensation, wage and hour law violations, personal injury or property damage incurred in the transportation of freight. Item 9A · disclosure controls · Based upon that evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of December 31, 2024. | ||||||
| 2023-12-31 | 2024-02-28 | as filed | not extracted | effective | none in Item 9A | EDGAR |
Item 3 · We are involved in ordinary routine litigation incidental to our operations. These lawsuits primarily involve claims for workers’ compensation, personal injury or property damage incurred in the transportation of freight. Item 9A · disclosure controls · Based upon that evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of December 31, 2023. | ||||||
| 2022-12-31 | 2023-02-28 | as filed | not extracted | effective | none in Item 9A | EDGAR |
Item 3 · We are involved in ordinary routine litigation incidental to our operations. These lawsuits primarily involve claims for workers’ compensation, personal injury, or property damage incurred in the transportation of freight. Item 9A · disclosure controls · Based upon that evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of December 31, 2022. | ||||||
| 2021-12-31 | 2022-02-28 | as filed | not extracted | effective | none in Item 9A | EDGAR |
Item 3 · We are involved in ordinary routine litigation incidental to our operations. These lawsuits primarily involve claims for workers’ compensation, personal injury, or property damage incurred in the transportation of freight. Item 9A · disclosure controls · Based upon that evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of December 31, 2021. | ||||||
5 of 5 annual reports on record have their filing text cached on this host; the rest are listed with their EDGAR link and no extraction, because this surface never fetches from SEC on a page load.
- Item 3 and Item 9A are located in the filing HTML already cached on this host and read with the same line-anchored item matcher and largest-gap body disambiguation the filing-narrative pass uses for Item 1A and Item 7 — no fetch, no model, no summarization.
- A heading is accepted as a section only when it is not a table-of-contents row (a trailing page number), not a quoted reference in prose, and names its own section; the span must then clear a per-item length band and carry readable text after the heading. Anything that fails a gate is served as 'not extracted' with the reason — never as a default value.
- An effectiveness conclusion is read only from a sentence that names its own control set (disclosure controls and procedures, or internal control over financial reporting) and states an outcome. Conditional sentences — the standard limitations paragraph and forward-looking remediation language — are excluded, because they are hypotheses rather than conclusions.
- When a filing's own sentences disagree — an effective conclusion beside an unremediated material-weakness disclosure, or two conclusions of opposite sign — no verdict is asserted. A wrong 'controls were effective' reading is worse than no reading.
- Every verdict is shown beside the verbatim sentence it was read from. The excerpt is the filing's own words, capped at 1,200 characters; the filing itself is one link away.