Latest Restaurant Headlines

All the headlines from our Restaurant Topic Page, ordered by recency.

Par for the course: golf club premiums

Aug 21 2006 // Golf and country clubs are complex risks that make it difficult for agents and brokers to know how premium dollars should be allocated. That task is even more difficult because each club is different. Private clubs are...

Par for the course: golf club premiums

Aug 21 2006 // Golf and country clubs are complex risks that make it difficult for agents and brokers to know how premium dollars should be allocated. That task is even more difficult because each club is different. Private clubs are...

Health Officials: E. Coli Believed Traced to a Wendy’s Lettuce

Aug 10 2006 // E. coli infections among people attending a conference in Ogden, Utah, in June are believed to have come from lettuce provided by a Wendy’s restaurant, health officials said. The CORE Academy conference held June...

N.H. Man Fined in Restaurant Insurance Fraud

Jul 12 2006 // A Portsmouth, N.H. man was fined and given a suspended prison sentence after pleading guilty to trying to defraud his insurance company, according to officials. The case goes back to 2003, when Jesse Gregoire got into a...

AVRECO’s Borderline Med-Mal Market

Jul 4 2006 // Chicago-based wholesaler AVRECO has a new medical liability insurance market for borderline nonstandard physicians and surgeons. It’s geared toward doctors on their way to a standard market, but who haven’t...

Ill. Mayor Accused of Steering Insurance Business for Payoffs

Jun 23 2006 // A suburban tavern owner was promised he would receive only “a slap on the wrist” for citations against his business because the agency he bought his insurance through was owned by a friend of the longtime mayor...

N.Y. Restaurant Workers’ Comp Safety Group Pays 40% Dividend

Jun 22 2006 // United Restaurants of New York Workers’ Compensation Safety Group #556 has paid a 40 percent dividend to approximately 775 members for policies through Sept. 30, 2005, according to the group’s manager, The...

A tale of two New Orleans hotels

Jun 19 2006 // If there’s anything to be learned from last year’s hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma, it’s that the value of relationships before, during and after a claim is immeasurable, according to Mel Bangs,...

Mass. Liquor JUA Rewards Training Security Staff, Not Just Servers

May 25 2006 // The Liquor Liability Joint Underwriting Association of Massachusetts (LLJUA) and a security training company are teaming up to transform security staff into trained professionals in what is believed to be the first program...

A tale of two New Orleans hotels

May 22 2006 // If there’s anything to be learned from last year’s hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma, it’s that the value of relationships before, during and after a claim is immeasurable, according to Mel Bangs,...

Argonaut Group’s Great Central Introduces Mich. Liquor Liability Insurance Program

May 15 2006 // Great Central Insurance, a member of the Select Markets segment of Argonaut Group, Inc., announced today the addition of a liquor liability insurance program for the state of Michigan to its portfolio of specialized...

Checking-in on hospitality coverage

May 8 2006 // As an agent or broker serving the hospitality market, you’ve enjoyed many coverage options at lower premiums in the last few years. In fact, you’re probably still delivering good news to your clients about...

California State Fund Offers Restaurant-Safety Training Program

Apr 26 2006 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund will sponsor a free restaurant-safety training program at its Oxnard office on April 27. The workshop is designed to help restaurant supervisors and owners create a...

Insurer Sells Chatham Bars Inn on Cape Cod

Apr 20 2006 // American Financial Group, Inc.’s subsidiary, Great American Financial Resources, Inc., has reached an agreement to sell Chatham Bars Inn, its resort-hotel property located on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, for $166...

Mass. Couple Charged in Glass-Eating Insurance Fraud

Apr 17 2006 // A Massachusetts man was arrested on charges that he, along with his wife, submitted false insurance claims that they had ingested glass found in food they had eaten at restaurants and grocery stores in Massachusetts, Rhode...

California Bars Workers from Neverland Ranch Due to Insurance

Mar 14 2006 // Michael Jackson has been ordered to pay a $69,000 fine and remove 69 employees from his Neverland Ranch in Los Olivos, Calif., for allowing workers’ compensation insurance to lapse at the exotic estate that has been...

Cracker Barrel to Fork Over $2M for Harassment at 3 Ill. Restaurants

Mar 13 2006 // Federal District Judge Charles Norgle, Sr. has entered a $2 million consent decree resolving a workplace discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) challenging sexual and...

State Fund to Host Restaurant Health and Safety Workshop in San Francisco

Mar 6 2006 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund will sponsor a free restaurant health and safety workshop in San Francisco to help restaurant supervisors and owners design a comprehensive safety training program and...

Geo. F. Brown & Sons Extends Liquor Liability Program to Arizona

Feb 24 2006 // Geo. F. Brown & Sons Inc. is offering a liquor liability program in Arizona. Available on a non-admitted basis, the new program is for all classes serving alcoholic beverages including bars and taverns, restaurants,...

Wis. Law Would Ban Suits Against Restaurants for Making People Fat

Feb 23 2006 // Wisconsin lawmakers are taking tort reform to a new level with a proposal that would prevent people from suing restaurants and food distributors for making them fat. A proposal in the Wisconsin state Senate is designed to...