Latest Hospitality Headlines

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

Firms Vulnerable In Corrupt Practices Crackdown

Jan 19 2011 // Authorities have been escalating their campaign against corruption in the last few years, resulting in a sharp spike in enforcement actions in the United States and the enactment of a new anti-bribery law in the United...

Chartis Launches Hospitality Industry Coverage Enhancements

Jan 18 2011 // Chartis has introduced a series of coverage enhancements, developed by its Commercial Casualty division, to address the unique casualty exposures of the hospitality industry. The coverages are part of a suite of primary...

Firms At Risk As Fight Against Corrupt Practices Heats Up

Jan 10 2011 // Authorities have been escalating their campaign against corruption in the last few years, resulting in a sharp spike in enforcement actions in the United States and the enactment of a new anti-bribery law in the United...

Leavitt Recreation & Hospitality Names Burdick as New Program Underwriter

Oct 29 2010 // Leavitt Recreation & Hospitality Insurance (LRHI) has named Mitch Burdick as the new program underwriter for their RV park and campground program. Burdick has been with the agency since 2006 as a producer and account...

Ironshore Environmental Expands Oil Spill Program to Hospitality Sector

Aug 23 2010 // Ironshore Environmental has expanded its suite of asset-class specific SPILLS programs to provide comprehensive environmental coverage to the Hospitality Sector. Ironshore’s Environmental Hospitality program offers...

Why Captive Solutions Might Grow Your Hospitality Book, and Revenue Too

Apr 23 2010 // Compare the estimated $30 billion in after tax profits that the U.S. property and casualty marketplace will likely book for 2009 to the year end results of the hospitality industry, whose lodging (occupancy near 56...

Hospitality Risks: A Game for Captives

Apr 5 2010 // Hospitality owners have concerns with retaining risk that they cannot transfer to the insurance market and owners are looking for legitimate ways to preserve their firms’ assets or to use the captive as a profit...

Experience and Specialization Matters When It Comes to Complex Hospitality Insurance

Mar 7 2010 // In my view, along with a good banker, lawyer, accountant and doctor, the next trusted person for business and personal matters that one should have a long term relationship with is an insurance agent. As a business grows...

National Specialty Underwriters, Ace Westchester Launch Hospitality Program

Dec 10 2009 // Bellevue, Wash.-based National Specialty Underwriters Inc. (NSU) a program administrator and specialty wholesale broker, and ACE Westchester, the U.S.-based wholesale-focused property and casualty operation of the ACE...

PGI Commercial Expands Hospitality Program to Illinois

Sep 29 2009 // PGI Commercial, headquartered in New Jersey, has introduced a hospitality insurance program in Illinois on an admitted basis.Coverage is provided by member companies of American Safety Insurance Group, which carry an...

Fireman’s Fund, Leavitt Recreation Offer Campground Coverages

Oct 21 2008 // In an effort to offer campground owners protection, Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. has teamed with Leavitt Recreation & Hospitality Insurance to offer a comprehensive program of risk management and...

Tympanick Now President, CEO of Hospitality Mutual in Mass.

Sep 23 2008 // Hospitality Mutual Insurance Co. In Westboro, Mass., announced that John W. Tympanick has been named president and chief executive officer and has been appointed to its board of directors. Hospitality Mutual, a mutual...

Fireman’s Fund Offers Coverage To Protect Innkeepers’ Personal Interests

Aug 28 2008 // Recognizing that innkeepers need broad protection and flexible limits. Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. is now offering the innkeepers’ extension endorsement, which combines 32 options in a single package for small...

Mass. LLJUA Becomes Competitive Hospitality Mutual

Aug 21 2008 // Massachusetts lawmakers have approved legislation converting the state’s liquor liability insurer of last resort into a competitive mutual insurance company offering liquor liability insurance to the entire...

Arst Joins Higginbotham & Associates as Hospitality Specialist

Jul 31 2008 // Matt Arst has joined Higginbotham & Associates as a commercial account executive in the company’s Fort Worth headquarters. He brings to the agency niche expertise in hospitality industry exposures and related...

Mass. Allows Liquor Liability JUA to Expand as Hospitality Mutual

Jul 8 2008 // Massachusetts lawmakers have approved legislation converting the state’s liquor liability insurer of last resort into a competitive mutual insurance company offering liquor liability insurance to the entire...

Hanover Program Targets Mid-to-High End Hotels

Dec 19 2007 // The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. is making available a new insurance program — The Hanover Hospitality Advantage — for hotels and motels.The Hanover Hospitality Advantage was developed to help the...

Hospitality industry faces more than just traditional P/C losses

Feb 26 2007 // Business interruption coverage a must in a world awaiting the next illness ‘outbreak’Whether you study the growth curve in the “baby boomer” generation or generation “X” or...

Hospitality industry faces more than just traditional P/C losses

Feb 25 2007 // Whether you study the growth curve in the “baby boomer” generation or generation “X” or “Y,” it is clear that we have a collision course of increased scope of risk, changing...

HOSPITALITY RISKS

Oct 23 2006 // In Pennsylvania, a disabled customer complained of emotional distress when she dined at a restaurant that lacked adequate parking for her wheelchair van and where the restrooms were not fully wheelchair-accessible. The...