All the headlines from our Liquor Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 24 2020 // The business of operating a farm has evolved significantly in the past several years. It’s not just about planting, caring for, harvesting and selling crops. It’s often about other ways that the land can be...
Feb 20 2020 // Nebraska’s liquor control agency has called a movie theater bar in suburban Omaha to account for accidentally serving two customers cocktails that contained cleaning solution.The Alamo Drafthouse in La Vista could...
Aug 22 2019 // Which helps society more? Alcohol or cannabis.That sounds like a funny question, but it may be an important one with more local governments embracing the opportunity to bring in tax revenue from cannabis sales. A new...
May 6 2019 // I received a nice notice from my commercial GL carrier advising the coverages at renewal would materially change. Admitted carriers have to provide such notices (E&O point: exceptions to this rule do exist, even for...
Mar 28 2019 // Nebraska retailers who were hoping to salvage alcohol that was touched by floodwaters are out of luck. The Nebraska Liquor Control Commission said that stores must destroy any alcohol in containers that came into physical...
Mar 18 2019 // “The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.” – AristotleThough attributed to Aristotle, he didn’t really say that, exactly. More likely, he said something very complicated, but the...
Feb 12 2019 // Hawaii lawmakers have advanced a measure that would allow judges to prohibit people convicted of drunken driving from purchasing or publicly consuming alcohol for three years after their conviction.The measure, introduced...
Sep 24 2018 // More than 3 million people died in 2016 due to drinking too much alcohol, meaning one in 20 deaths worldwide was linked to harmful drinking, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday [Sept. 21].More than...
Aug 26 2018 // A new scientific study concludes there is no safe level of drinking alcohol.The study shows that in 2016, nearly 3 million deaths globally were attributed to alcohol use, including 12 percent of deaths in males between the...
Jul 3 2018 // Gov. Kim Reynolds signed more than 170 bills during and after the legislative session and most of those laws took effect on July 1, the start of Iowa’s new budget year.Among the new laws in effect that may affect the...
Apr 5 2018 // Louisiana’s legal drinking age will remain 21, after a state senator shelved his proposal to let some younger people buy alcoholic beverages if they’re educated about the risks before imbibing.Sen. Eric LaFleur...
Apr 3 2018 // Florida State University has lifted its ban on alcohol and social functions by fraternities, sororities and student organizations, months after the death of a fraternity pledge at an off-campus party.Vice President of...
Mar 28 2018 // Security video shot in the basement of a Penn State fraternity house the night a pledge was fatally injured during an evening of hazing and drinking was played in court on Monday and shows fraternity members plying pledges...
Mar 15 2018 // An appeals court in Dallas has reversed a lower court’s denial of a motion to compel arbitration in a dispute between a night club and its contracted entertainer.In Dallas Food & Beverage LLC d/b/a Buck’s...
Jan 11 2018 // Two fraternities at East Carolina University have been closed by their national organizations following investigations into alcohol and hazing infractions. Local media outlets report school officials announced Monday that...
Dec 28 2017 // The Oklahoma Supreme Court has overturned a lower court ruling that hundreds of restaurants in the state overcharged customers for mixed drinks.Lawsuits filed in 2011 by Tom Erbar and John Truel alleged restaurants...
Oct 2 2017 // Restaurants are probably one of the most underinsured classes of business in the industry. Competition, inadequate pricing, and owners refusing to buy needed coverages are some of the reasons cited by specialty brokers in...
Sep 6 2017 // Jodee Edwards had a home and auto insurance policy issued by insurer Encompass that excluded coverage for loss “arising out of sexual molestation, corporal punishment, or physical or mental abuse.” Edwards was...
Aug 14 2017 // Nevada marijuana regulators have decided to start issuing pot distribution licenses to businesses other than liquor wholesalers to keep up with overwhelming demand since legal recreational sales began July 1.The Nevada...
May 1 2017 // Liquor liability claims are on the rise for the bar and nightclub sector. The number of insurance carriers willing to write tough to place establishments has dwindled fast, according to Marc Adler, Managing Director, Burns...