Latest Restaurant Headlines

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

GL/Property – Restaurant and Hospitality

Feb 7 2005 // Nuts & Bolts: Wausau Insurance rolled out the latest in a series of Wausau Express package policies for property and general liability–with the newest versions designed for restaurant and hospitality businesses....

Restaurants, Hospitality

Jan 24 2005 // Nuts & Bolts: Wausau Insurance rolled out the latest in a series of Wausau Express package policies for property and general liability–with the newest versions designed for restaurant and hospitality businesses....

Wausau Streamlines Property, GL for Restaurants and Hospitality Businesses

Jan 10 2005 // Wisconsin-based property/casualty carrier Wausau Insurance has rolled out the latest in a series of Wausau Express package policies for property and general liability, with the newest versions designed to streamline...

Maryland Hunts for Motives Behind State’s Largest Residential Arson

Jan 3 2005 // An arson that destroyed part of a Greenbelt, Maryland-area development with many black homeowners was “an effort to wipe out a community” and authorities are “very carefully investigating” whether...

Restaurants put risk management on the menu

Jan 2 2005 // The restaurant marketplace is becoming more complex than ever with food safety, marketing dominance by the chains and globalization on the minds of owners. Also, frivolous lawsuits against restaurants abound, so it...

Restaurants ‘Slipping and Tripping’ into Financial Disaster

Nov 29 2004 // Restaurant Insurance Corp. (RIC) a Greenwood Village, Colo.-based specialty insurance company, released findings from a study of claims filed by its insured restaurants since 2002 showing that slips, trips, and falls by...

Restaurant Package

Nov 8 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Venture Programs Inc. added a restaurant package through Alea North America Insurance Co. to its hospitality program. The restaurant package includes property, general liability, liquor liability,...

New Admitted Restaurant Package Program from SAIS

Oct 20 2004 // Richard Swoy, chairman of Superior Access Insurance Services Inc., announced that SAIS has added another financially stable, “A+” rated admitted carrier. According to Swoy, “This is just the beginning of...

Restaurant Package

Oct 11 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Venture Programs Inc. added a restaurant package through Alea North America Ins. Co. to its Venture Hospitality program. The restaurant package includes property, general liability, liquor liability,...

Restaurant Package

Oct 11 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Venture Programs Inc. added a restaurant package through Alea North America Insurance Co. to its hospitality program. The restaurant package includes property, general liability, liquor liability,...

Restaurant Package

Sep 20 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Venture Programs Inc. added a restaurant package through Alea North America Ins. Co. to its Venture Hospitality program. The restaurant package includes property, general liability, liquor liability,...

Restaurant Package

Sep 20 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Venture Programs Inc. added a restaurant package through Alea North America Ins. Co. to its Venture Hospitality program. The restaurant package includes property, general liability, liquor liability,...

Restaurants Serving Liquor

Sep 6 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Midlands Management Corp. is offering a new market for restaurants that serve liquor. Dollars: Policy limits of $750,000 property per location are available and $1 million-$2 million limit for liability....

Restaurants with Liquor

Sep 6 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Midlands Management Corp. has a new market for restaurants with liquor. Dollars: Policy limits of $750,000 property per location; $1 million – $2 million limit for liability. Deductibles of $1,000...

Historic Richmond Hard Hit by Gaston Flooding

Sep 2 2004 // An unexpectedly heavy downpour from the remnants of Tropical Storm Gaston led to widespread flooding in Richmond, Va. that left at least five dead and devastated an historic neighborhood that was the heart of the...

Mass. Liquor Liability JUA to Write Higher Limits

Aug 25 2004 // The Liquor Liability Joint Underwriting Authority (LLJUA) of Massachusetts has taken advantage of a new law and filed to write higher occurrence policy limits of $1 million/$1 million. By law, the LLJUA had been limited to...

Former Broker Arrested in $4M Fraud Scam

Jun 21 2004 // Richard W. Peterson, 63, of San Francisco, a former insurance broker/agent, was arrested at Miami International Airport on federal fraud charges for allegedly selling approximately $4 million of fake insurance policies...

Oklahoma Restaurant Assoc. Endorses Great Central

May 10 2004 // Great Central Insurance Company, a member of San Antonio-based Argonaut Group Inc.‘s Specialty Commercial segment, announced it was named the endorsed insurance company for the Oklahoma Restaurant Association (ORA)...

Bay Area Man Arrested on East Coast in $4 Million Insurance Fraud Scam

Apr 23 2004 // Richard W. Peterson, 63, of San Francisco, a former insurance broker/agent, was arrested April 19th at Miami International Airport on federal fraud charges for allegedly selling approximately $4 million of fake insurance...

Buttafuoco Behind Bars

Apr 5 2004 // Joey Buttafuoco, whose 17-year-old lover became known as the “Long Island Lolita” after shooting his wife in the face, has been sentenced to a year in jail for auto insurance fraud. Buttafuoco, 48, pleaded...