Rafael Cuellar, the owner of a grocery store in Passaic, NJ, estimates he has spent around $350,000 to install and maintain his store’s camera and recording devices. But it’s not to protect him from shoplifters — it’s to help him defend against lawsuit abusers.
“Spending nearly half a million dollars on cameras and DVRs is a drop in the bucket compared to what Mr. Cuellar would spend on a reward settlement, which could be in the millions.”Store Owner Pays Big Bucks for Video Cameras to Defend Against Lawsuit Abuse · Passaic, NJ
At its peak, Blitz USA, the 50-year-old producer of three out of every four portable gas cans nationwide, employed 350 people in the small town of Miami, Oklahoma. But over the last decade, a wave of costly litigation took its toll, and lawsuits finally drove the company out of business…
“This whole community is a victim in this case.”Rocky Flick ·CEO, Blitz USA · Miami, OK
When Roberto Guerrero and his family emigrated from war-torn Nicaragua in the 1980s, they hoped to share their family’s love of coffee with the residents of San Francisco. Starting with one store in 1987, members of the family opened several coffee shops in the Bay Area…
“These types of lawsuits highly abuse the law.”Roberto Guerrero ·Cumaica Coffee · San Francisco, CA
When Ramiro Arvizu and Jaime del Campo first opened their small Mexican restaurant, La Casita Mexicana, in 2000, they wanted to provide a taste of Mexican culture to the residents of Bell, California, a predominantly Latino city located just outside of Los Angeles…
“It’s very difficult to start a business. With things like lawsuits, it’s stopping everything from growing.”Jaime del Campo & Ramiro Arvizu ·La Casita Mexicana · Bell, CA
As a kid, Mike Roman raced go-karts and dreamed of being a race car driver. But all of his dreams and hopes seemed to disappear in 1994 when minor knee surgery led to a life-threatening staph infection. After thirty-three surgeries to save his leg, it was eventually amputated…
“Our fear as a family is that lawsuits will choke down the pipeline of innovation.”Mike Roman ·Landspeed Racer · Bonneville Salt Flats
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