$PHOT Form 8-K

Beginning on April 18, 2014, three class action lawsuits alleging violations of federal securities laws were filed against GrowLife, Inc. (the “Company”) in United States District Court, Central District of California (the “Court”). At a hearing held on July 21, 2014, the three class action lawsuits were consolidated into one case with Bryan Chong as the lead plaintiff (the “Consolidated Class Action,” styled Romero et al. vs. GrowLife et al.). On May 15, 2014 and August 4, 2014, respectively two shareholder derivative lawsuits were filed against the Company with the Court (the “Derivative Actions”). On October 20, 2014, AmTrust North America, the Company’s insurer filed a lawsuit contesting insurance coverage on the above legal proceedings.

On October 28, 2014, the above parties conducted voluntary, non-binding mediation of the above actions. The parties continued settlement discussions through early 2015, and reached an agreement on a mediator’s proposal by the first week of February of 2015 to resolve all of the above litigation.

On February 9, 2015, the parties filed a Joint Notice of Proposed Settlement with the Court presiding over the Consolidated Class Action.

On April 27, 2015, the Court approved an announcement of the proposed class action settlement of the Consolidated Class Action which announcement was published by counsel for the plaintiffs on May 7, 2015 as required by the Court.

On June 1, 2015, the Court approved an announcement of the proposed settlement of the Derivative Actions pursuant to a stipulation between the parties. A copy of the Stipulation and Agreement of Compromise, Settlement and Release of the Derivative Actions is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and incorporated by reference herein. Notice of the settlement of the Derivative Actions was announced on June 16, 2015 pursuant to that certain Notice of Settlement of Stockholder Derivative Litigation attached hereto as part of the press release included in Exhibit 99.2 and incorporated by reference herein.

Further details on the above-described legal proceedings were previously disclosed in filings with the SEC on the Company’s Form 8-K dated May 18, 2014, June 11, 2014 and February 12, 2015, respectively, along with subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. These previous disclosures are incorporated herein by this reference.