More Franchise Drama in Mass: Night Shift, Loverboy Grapple Over (Any) Compensation

Dear Client:   When we write about suppliers and distributors fighting over termination, it’s usually small craft brewer versus big distributor, or big distributor versus big supplier. You don’t often see small supplier and small distributor getting into it. But if it had to happen somewhere, Massachusetts, with its long history of franchise reform fracas, would be the place for it.  And indeed, it appears that local sparkling hard tea brand Loverboy is also now entangled in a dispute with Night