Latest Restaurant Headlines
All the headlines from our Restaurant Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Virginia ‘Guns in Bars’ Study Finds Little Effect on Crime
Aug 16 2011 // The number of gun crimes at Virginia bars and restaurants declined slightly during the first year of a new state law that allows people with permits to carry concealed firearms into establishments that serve alcohol, a...
Illinois Bars Workers’ Compensation for State Employees Involved in Crimes
Aug 11 2011 // A new law inspired by a former Illinois State Police trooper’s high-speed freeway wreck that killed two sisters bars state employees injured while committing crimes from getting workers’ compensation. The...
Mass. Court Nixes Claim Over Obsolete Fire Protection
Aug 1 2011 // A Massachusetts restaurant owner who failed to upgrade his obsolete fire suppression system was not entitled to collect insurance money after a massive fire six years ago – and must return $15,000 advanced to him by...
Massachusetts Judge: Obsolete Fire-Suppression Means No Claims Paid
Jul 20 2011 // A Massachusetts restaurant owner who failed to upgrade his obsolete fire suppression system was not entitled to collect insurance money after a massive fire six years ago — and must return $15,000 advanced to him by his...
Mobile Food Vendor Market Explodes as Insurance Market Evolves
Jun 21 2011 // In just about every metropolitan area nationwide hungry customers can appease their appetites by visiting the neighborhood taco truck. The traditional taco truck sells more than just tacos these days – a lot more....
Mobile Food Vendor Market Explodes as Insurance Market Evolves
Jun 6 2011 // In just about every metropolitan area nationwide hungry customers can appease their appetites by visiting the neighborhood taco truck. The traditional taco truck sells more than just tacos these days – a lot more....
New York Court Reinstates Restaurant Worker’s Product Liability Suit
May 13 2011 // New York’s top court this week reinstated a Manhattan restaurant worker’s product liability lawsuit over a lye-crystal drain cleaner, concluding that the companies behind it have to do more than simply state...
E&O Insights: Exposures to Watch for When Insuring the Local Neighborhood Tavern Risk
May 2 2011 // While many towns might not have a hardware store or a dry cleaner, chances are there is a neighborhood tavern. It is estimated there are more than 50,000 bars in the United States. In fact, many of these taverns have been...
Michigan Couple Sues Applebee’s for Giving Infant Booze
Apr 15 2011 // The Applebee’s restaurant chain publicly apologized Wednesday after a 15-month-old boy was served alcohol mislabeled as apple juice when his family dined at one of its Detroit-area restaurants, but it questioned...
Agency Management by TV Reality Shows
Mar 7 2011 // What Agency Owners Might Learn from ‘Kitchen Nightmares’ and ‘Undercover Boss’ Reality shows have taken over television. Every network has at least a few each week. They range from absurd spin-offs...
Why Restaurants’ Insurance Menu Should Include Cyber Risk Coverage
Mar 7 2011 // Many businesses have not updated their insurance to keep pace with today’s world of cyber liability. Restaurants are no exception. Today restaurants use the Internet. A restaurant will likely have its own Web site, a...
Restaurants Rebound: Insurance Market Heats Up
Mar 7 2011 // It is no secret that the restaurant industry has been in a slump. As families have cut back on eating out, restaurants have suffered three straight years of a decline in business: -.2 percent in 2010, -2.8 percent in 2009...
Restaurant Sales Going Up After 3 Tough Years
Mar 7 2011 // Restaurant industry sales are expected to reach a record $604 billion and post positive growth in 2011 after a three-year period of negative real sales growth. The 2011 forecast from the National Restaurant Association...
Alabama Bars’ Machines Let Drinkers Test Alcohol Level
Feb 18 2011 // The latest electronic novelty popping up in local bars in Alabama might spare someone a night in jail or even save a life — or it might just become another drinking game. Breathalyzer machines have been installed at...
Mood on Main Street: Agents on Hardest Hit Small Businesses
Feb 17 2011 // Agents across the country — except in Texas and neighboring states — agree that construction and related trades have been hardest hit by the recession. Restaurants appear to be the second hardest hit. In terms of lines...
Chartis’ Introduces Enhancements for Restaurant, Real Estate Industries
Feb 7 2011 // Chartis has introduced Prime Express with XSEnhanced, a suite of coverage endorsements developed by its Growth Enterprises Division to provide industry-specific enhancements to Growth Enterprises’ Prime Express...
Main Street’s Hardest Hit Businesses
Feb 7 2011 // Agents across the country — except in Texas and neighboring states — agree that construction and related trades have been hardest hit by the recession. Restaurants appear to be the second hardest hit. In terms of lines...
Insurance Industry Can Help Pizzerias Avoid Losses on Super Bowl Sunday
Feb 4 2011 // Americans will consumer 30 million slices of pizza on Sunday, making Super Bowl Sunday one of the busiest day of the year for pizza chains. Papa Johns, the official pizza sponsor for Super Bowl XL, expects to have its...
Texas Mutual Returns $2.1M Dividend to Texas Restaurant Assoc.
Jan 6 2011 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced a $2,130,561 dividend to the Texas Restaurant Association (TRA) workers’ compensation purchasing group. The dividend was based largely on the group’s overall loss...
Aon Launches Extended Restaurant Brand Protection Policy
Dec 7 2010 // Aon Risk Solutions, Aon’s global risk management division, announced that it has developed an insurance policy that provides a greater level of protection than has previously been available from the insurance market...
