All the headlines from our Liquor Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 6 2020 // The National Transportation Safety Board confirmed an Alaska airplane pilot involved in a fatal crash had a blood-alcohol level more than five times above the legal limit for pilots to fly.The final NTSB crash report said...
Jul 24 2020 // A North Carolina mayor has banned alcohol sales in the city after 11 p.m. in an effort to curb the coronavirus spread.Raleigh Mayor Mary-Ann Baldwin signed an executive order Monday announcing the sale ban in bars,...
Jul 13 2020 // In an effort to stem South Carolina’s raging coronavirus outbreak, particularly among young adults he says are gathering in unsafe groupings, Gov. Henry McMaster is shutting off the late-night sale of alcohol at bars...
Jun 29 2020 // The state House gave final approval to legislation Thursday allowing packaged goods retailers to make home deliveries of beer, wine and liquor. House members approved of the bill 114-45.Under the bill, only alcohol in...
Jun 1 2020 // The pilot flying Kobe Bryant and seven others to a youth basketball tournament did not have alcohol or drugs in his system, and all nine sustained immediately fatal injuries when their helicopter slammed into a hillside...
May 18 2020 // The pilot flying Kobe Bryant and seven others to a youth basketball tournament did not have alcohol or drugs in his system, and all nine sustained immediately fatal injuries when their helicopter slammed into a hillside...
Mar 13 2020 // The mother of a Massachusetts man who drowned in the Charles River after drinking alcohol at a Boston Celtics game is suing TD Garden and its parent company for unspecified damages.Lori Kelleher filed a wrongful death...
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...