Latest Hospitality Headlines
All the headlines from our Hospitality Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Maryland Hospitality Firm Settles Employee Pregnancy Discrimination, Firing Suit
May 6 2024 // Savage River Lodge and Little Crossings will pay $150,000 and furnish equitable relief to settle federal charges that they discriminated against an employee because of her pregnancy and then fired her. The Frostburg,...
Hospitality Workers Ratify New Contract with 34 Southern California Hotels
Mar 27 2024 // Thousands of Southern California hospitality workers overwhelmingly ratified a new contract with 34 hotels after repeated strikes since the summer, their union announced. Workers won higher pay, increased employer...
Don’t Let Criminals Steal a Guest’s Good Time: Theft Awareness and Prevention in the Hospitality Industry
Mar 4 2024 // Theft is an opportunistic crime, and few places provide more opportunity for a criminal than a hotel or resort. From the moment that guests first pull into the parking lot until their eventual check out and departure,...
Las Vegas Hospitality Workers Permit Union to Call Strike Against Hotels, Casinos
Sep 28 2023 // Tens of thousands of Las Vegas hospitality workers fighting for new union contracts voted Tuesday to authorize a strike that could impact more than three dozen casinos and hotels, the city’s economic backbone. The...
People Moves: WTW Names Mascaro Hospitality Leader; Leach SVP, Founder of K2 Financial US Ops; MEMIC Hires Underwriters
Jul 11 2023 // WTW announced the appointment of Juan Mascaro as hospitality segment leader, a part of the Real Estate, Hospitality, and Leisure Division within Corporate Risk and Broking (CRB), North America. Mascaro has more than two...
People Moves: TigerRisk Taps RenRe’s Everdell to Lead Casualty; HUB Promotes Chandani for Hospitality Specialty; Fidelis Names Brindle as Head of Sustainability
Apr 19 2022 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at two brokers, TigerRisk and Hub International, and the insurer Fidelis. A summary of these new hires follows here. TigerRisk Taps RenRe’s Everdell as...
UK Hospitality Groups Are Back in Court With Insurers Over Lockdown Losses
Jan 21 2022 // Some of the world’s biggest insurers are bracing as a second wave of multi-million-pound lawsuits, brought by struggling British pubs, restaurants and bakery chains over lockdown losses, starts hitting London’s...
Hospitality on the Road to Recovery
Oct 4 2021 // The hotel industry has made progress on the road to recovery from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, but in total, the sector is still reeling. The hotel industry is projected to end 2021 down more than $59 billion in...
California Legislature Oks Bill Requiring Hospitality Businesses to Rehire Displaced Workers
Apr 20 2021 // Now that Gov. Gavin Newsom is letting more businesses reopen as coronavirus cases decline, the California Legislature on has passed a bill requiring some hotels, stadiums other hospitality companies to offer laid-off...
Wisconsin’s Society Insurance to Enter Texas Hospitality Market
Mar 18 2021 // Wisconsin-based Society Insurance has plans to launch its insurance programs for the hospitality industry in Texas this year. In business for more than 100 years, Society Insurance offers property/casualty coverages,...
Texas Hospitality Sector Hardest Hit in Pandemic; State Has $1B Budget Hole
Jan 12 2021 // The coronavirus pandemic has created a nearly $1 billion deficit in the Texas state budget as the nation’s energy hub remains hampered by a slow recovery and a half-million fewer jobs than a year ago. The forecast by...
McGriff Expands Real Estate & Hospitality Practice, Launches Northeast Regional Team
Dec 10 2020 // McGriff is expanding its Real Estate & Hospitality Practice with the launch of a Manhattan-based Northeast regional team that includes four hires with industry experience. The new team will grow McGriff’s...
Next Virus Shutdown May Cost Washington Restaurants $800M
Nov 25 2020 // A four-week shutdown on indoor service at restaurants and bars prompted by an alarming statewide spike in COVID-19 cases is expected to cost the industry some $800 million, a representative said Monday. Anthony Anton,...
Exiting Insurers, Premium Hikes Frustrate Canada’s Struggling Hospitality Industry
Oct 8 2020 // Canadian hospitality businesses, already reeling from the downturn sparked by the coronavirus pandemic, are facing yet another existential threat as insurance companies spike premiums or exit the space, citing losses and...
Hotel Sector Sees Tough Times, High Rates in Insurance Market
Oct 5 2020 // The hotel industry was one of the first industries affected when COVID-19 forced the travel industry into standstill, and many predict it will also be one of the last industries to recover. Even as travel has ticked up...
HUB to Offer InsuraGuest Small Claims Hospitality Product to Hotel Clients
Sep 29 2020 // Hub International Limited (HUB), and InsuraGuest, Inc., have partnered to offer InsuraGuest’s Hospitality Liability coverage to HUB hotel clients in the U.S., with plans to expand to HUB’s clients in Canada by...
Top Insurers Face Lawsuit from UK Hospitality Sector on Rejected Biz Interruption Claims
Apr 30 2020 // Top insurers such as AXA, RSA, QBE and Zurich face a potential multi-million-pound lawsuit from British pubs, hotels, restaurants and leisure groups, who allege that legitimate business interruption claims have been...
Florida Tourism, Hospitality Industry Plans to Ease into Reopening
Apr 24 2020 // Florida’s tourism and hospitality industry should reopen from the coronavirus pandemic slowly, focusing first on getting residents to take in-state vacations before branching out to domestic and international...
UK MGA Aqueous Underwriting Offers COVID-Crisis Help for Hospitality, Leisure Clients
Apr 7 2020 // Aqueous Underwriting, a London-based managing general agent, has responded to the coronavirus crisis with a package of measures designed to help its clients in the food, hospitality and leisure sectors, which were forced...
Checking In with No Way out: How Hotels Can Prevent Human Trafficking
Mar 23 2020 // Anytime there’s a huge event like the Super Bowl where a large number of people convene from different locations, often to party, illegal activities such as human and sex trafficking tend to heat up, and thus, hit...
