Latest Restaurant Headlines
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In Charleston, Business Interruption Losses from Chemical Spill Take Toll
May 12 2014 // Restaurants and storefronts are buzzing again in West Virginia’s capital city of Charleston, but many still haven’t filled a financial hole after chemicals sullied their running water and forced them to close...
North Dakota Permanently Bars Agent from Selling Insurance in State
May 6 2014 // An administrative law judge in North Dakota has made permanent a cease and desist order issued by Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm against insurance producer Frederick Paul Skoda, formerly of Fargo, N.D., now of Detroit...
The Risks of Dining Out and How Insurance Can Help
May 5 2014 // Eating out may be less work, but that doesn’t mean there is less risk, according to a new report from the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), which finds that Americans are more than twice as likely to...
E&O Insights: Don’t Let Insuring Restaurants and Taverns Give You Heartburn
May 5 2014 // Virtually every town in the United States has a restaurant or tavern, so your pursuit of these risks is fairly likely. Unfortunately, at times these types of risks are not the easiest to place. Before you take that first...
Missouri Law Bars Contractors from Paying Deductibles on Commercial Property
May 2 2014 // Missouri lawmakers have given final approval to legislation that supporters say is aimed at protecting commercial property. A 2011 Missouri law bars residential contractors who fix roofs or complete other exterior repairs...
N.Y. Rep. Grimm Calls 20-Count Indictment Against Him ‘A Political Witch Hunt’
Apr 30 2014 // U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm (R-N.Y., 11th District), who as a House Financial Services Committee member was instrumental in adopting the flood insurance relief bill and in advocating for renewal of Terrorism Risk Insurance...
N.Y.’s Four Seasons Restaurant Sued Over Plan to Move Picasso Painting
Apr 28 2014 // New York’s storied Four Seasons restaurant has for decades harbored one of the city’s more unusual artworks: the largest Pablo Picasso painting in the United States. But a plan to move it has touched off a spat...
ProHost, XL Group Partner on Restaurant Insurance Package
Apr 17 2014 // ProHost USA, a Minneapolis, Minn.-based national program administrator specializing in restaurant insurance for 25 years, announced it is partnering with XL Group to provide packaged insurance coverages for fine dining and...
Agents Brewing Up Program Business for Craft Beermakers
Apr 16 2014 // Craft beers have been capturing an increasing share of the domestic beer market over the past decade and this specialty niche is still growing. By 2020, America’s craft brewers will have more than 20 percent market...
Massachusetts Lawmakers Seek to Ease Federal Flood Insurance Rules
Mar 25 2014 // When Mitch Haddad and his brother began rebuilding their family’s oceanside restaurant in Marshfield, Massachusetts, they decided to take no chances. The restaurant, which had been in the family for more than 70...
Brewing Boom
Mar 10 2014 // Microbrewers Make Their Mark The craft beer industry has been chipping away at the U.S. domestic beer market throughout the past decade. And the pace of growth in this specialty niche is not expected to stop anytime...
Oregon Restaurant Sued Over Mashed Potatoes
Mar 10 2014 // A man who says he broke two teeth when he bit into some mashed potatoes is suing at Outback Steakhouse restaurant in Portland, Ore. Roger Branstetter says there were bits of broken porcelain in the food in February 2012...
Minority Bar Owners in Racine, Wisconsin Say City Leaders Discriminated
Feb 28 2014 // Eight former bar owners in Racine, Wis., filed a lawsuit accusing the mayor and other city officials of racially discriminating against them and forcing their businesses to close. The federal lawsuit filed against Mayor...
Faulty Pipe Led to Deadly Carbon Monoxide Leak in N.Y. Mall, Official Says
Feb 25 2014 // A faulty water heater flue pipe caused the carbon monoxide leak that killed a New York restaurant manager and sent more than two dozen people to hospitals, a fire official said. Huntington Chief Fire Marshal Terence...
Officials Investigating Deadly Carbon Monoxide Leak at N.Y. Mall
Feb 24 2014 // Officials investigating a carbon monoxide leak at a New York mall are concentrating on the heating system of a restaurant there. A manager at Legal Sea Foods restaurant died and more than two dozen others were sent to...
Oregon Restaurant Sued Over Mashed Potatoes
Feb 20 2014 // A man who says he broke two teeth when he bit into some mashed potatoes is suing at Outback Steakhouse restaurant in Portland, Ore. Roger Branstetter says there were bits of broken porcelain in the food in February 2012...
Breathalyzer Devices May Pop Up in Utah Bars
Feb 19 2014 // Bargoers weighing whether they’re sober enough to take the wheel could soon have a tool to help make that decision. Breathalyzers and similar devices could pop up in more bars across Utah under a coming proposal from...
Kentucky Panel Advances Bill to Allow Concealed Guns in Bars
Feb 13 2014 // A bill to allow concealed deadly weapons in Kentucky bars has passed its first committee hearing in the Legislature. The Senate Licensing and Occupations Committee approved the measure Tuesday. The bill’s sponsor,...
Restaurant Safety Group Earns $670K Dividend from Texas Mutual Insurance
Jan 16 2014 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. announced a $669,540 dividend to the Texas Restaurant Association (TRA) workers’ compensation safety group. The dividend was based largely on the group’s overall loss ratio. Since...
RSA Launches New Restaurants and Hotels Policy
Jan 13 2014 // RSA, one of the UK’s principle commercial insurers, has launched a new Restaurants and Hotels insurance policy, which it said offers “flexible cover with a wealth of benefits to the hospitality trade. “It...
