Thursday, July 26, 2012
Review & Outlook: The Tort Bar Burns On - WSJ.com
If you dislike or are looking to dislike lawyers, this one's for you...
The article requires a login, BUT, most of the Wall Street Journal Article is at DVDtalk.com:
"A case study in modern robbery: Targeting the red plastic gas can. Like 19th century marauders, the trial bar attacks any business it thinks will cough up money in its raids. The latest victims are the people who make those red plastic gasoline cans. Until recently, Blitz USA—the nation's No. 1 consumer gasoline-can producer, based in Miami, Oklahoma—was doing fine. It's a commoditized, low-margin business, but it's steady. Sales normally pick up when hurricane season begins and people start storing fuel for back-up generators and the like."