Latest Restaurant Headlines

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Coronavirus and the Auto Exposure

Mar 24 2020 // Over the last several days the VU has fielded several auto insurance related questions. These questions cannot be classed simply as personal auto or business auto questions because the most common question involves both...

Wisconsin Commissioner: Insurers Must Offer Free Coverage for Restaurant Deliveries

Mar 24 2020 // Wisconsin’s insurance commissioner has directed insurers to provide insurance coverage for delivery drivers for restaurants during COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, even if those drivers/restaurants previously did...

Commentary: Does Business Income Insurance Cover Coronavirus Shutdowns?

Mar 24 2020 // On March 16, a lawsuit was filed in district court in New Orleans seeking a declaratory judgment about whether the business income coverage in a Lloyd’s property policy would cover a government-mandated shutdown or...

Florida Restaurant Dining Banned by Governor; Casinos Closed

Mar 23 2020 // Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis banned all onsite dining at restaurants statewide Friday and the Seminole Tribe closed its casinos, the latest virus -related closures affecting a state that is heavily dependent on tourism to pay...

Restaurants’ Coronavirus Relief Request Includes Government-Backed Insurance

Mar 19 2020 // The nation’s restaurants stand to lose at least $275 billion and shed as many as 7 million jobs over the next three months due to the coronavirus, the industry told lawmakers yesterday in appealing for help.The...

Analyst Says Specialty P/C Insurers More Likely to See Business Interruption Losses

Mar 19 2020 // The original property/casualty insurance industry reaction that business interruption losses may be modest may have been too optimistic, according to a leading insurance analyst.KBW’s Meyer Shields believes that the...

Restaurant Suit Tests Business Interruption Insurance for Coronavirus Shutdowns

Mar 19 2020 // A restaurant in the heart of the New Orleans tourism district filed a lawsuit on Monday asking a state judge for a declaratory judgment that its business-interruption policy will cover its damages if it is ordered to close...

Illinois Casualty to Suspend Billing to Restaurants, Taverns in COVID-19 Response

Mar 18 2020 // Beginning on March 20, Rock Island, Ill.-based Illinois Casualty Co. (ICC), a wholly owned subsidiary of ICC Holdings Inc., will temporarily suspend all insurance premium billing for 30 days.The company said the action is...

Small Businesses in Seattle Pinched as Virus Keeps Workers Home

Mar 11 2020 // The coronavirus outbreak has largely emptied Seattle’s usually busy downtown streets after Amazon and other companies told tens of thousands of people to work from home. That means far fewer customers for...

Wisconsin Bar Owner Found Guilty of Arson, Insurance Fraud

Mar 2 2020 // A bar owner in Waukesha, Wisconsin, has been found guilty of intentionally setting fire to his business, as well as several felony offenses related to the arson.According to U.S. Attorney Matthew D. Krueger with the U.S....

Oregon Bar Sued for $2.1M for Over-Serving Man Who Killed 2

Feb 20 2020 // The estate of a man who was killed in a drunken driving crash in 2017 and a crash victim who survived are suing the Prineville, Ore., bar that over-served driver Justin Bittick.The estate of Stephan Mitchell Leader-Bowles...

2 People Injured After Ceiling Collapses Inside Atlanta Airport Restaurant

Feb 18 2020 // Part of a restaurant ceiling collapsed inside Atlanta’s airport Thursday, leaving a large chunk of it draped over countertops in the dining area. One person was taken to a hospital, and a second person was treated at...

Arkansas Restaurant to Pay $300K to Settle Federal Sex Harassment Lawsuit

Feb 7 2020 // Pei Wei Asian Diner LLC, doing business as Pei Wei Fresh Kitchen in Little Rock, Arkansas, will pay $300,000 to former employees as part of a settlement of a sexual harassment and constructive discharge lawsuit.The U.S....

W. Virginia Girl’s Fall Into Restaurant Grease Pit Prompts Legislation to Toughen Fines

Feb 6 2020 // Kara Cvechko recalled her heart pounding as she scrambled headfirst down into an outdoor grease pit to save her 5-year-old daughter who had fallen through an unsecured opening at a West Virginia restaurant.Kambria...

18 Sickened After Private Function at Popular New Hampshire Restaurant

Dec 30 2019 // Eighteen people were sickened with a gastrointestinal illness after attending a private function last month at a restaurant co-owned by a Democratic congressman that’s popular with presidential candidates, state...

Vermont Bar Owners Settle Lawsuit with Woman Injured in Shooting

Dec 18 2019 // The owners of a Vermont bar settled a case Monday with a woman who was accidentally shot in the lung outside their establishment in 2018.Chelsi Parker, 26, and the owners of Nectar’s bar in Burlington resolved a...

McDonald’s Wins Battle With Labor, Avoids Joint Employer Liability with Franchises

Dec 13 2019 // McDonald’s Corp. has won a huge victory in a multiyear legal battle over whether it should share responsibility for alleged labor violations in its franchisees’ restaurants, a case that posed a major threat to...

McDonald’s Has Friends in High Places in High-Stakes Labor Fight

Dec 12 2019 // In a television commercial that’s become part of the lore surrounding Donald Trump’s affinity for McDonald’s Corp., he embraced a purple, lumpy denizen of the fast-food chain’s...

McDonald’s Will Pay $26 Million to Settle California Wage, Overtime, Break Claims

Dec 2 2019 // McDonald’s Corp. agreed to pay $26 million to settle a nearly seven-year-old lawsuit accusing the fast food chain of underpaying U.S. staff at its corporate-owned restaurants in California.The preliminary settlement...

McDonald’s Will Pay $26 Million to Settle California Wage, Overtime, Break Claims

Nov 26 2019 // McDonald’s Corp. agreed to pay $26 million to settle a nearly seven-year-old lawsuit accusing the fast food chain of underpaying U.S. staff at its corporate-owned restaurants in California.The preliminary settlement...