All the headlines from our Restaurant Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 19 2012 // North Dakota’s insurance commissioner says he’s served a cease-and-desist order on a Fargo-area insurance agent accused of failing to pay taxes and mishandling premium payments.Commissioner Adam Hamm says the...
Jul 18 2012 // Spring was gloomy in the Vermont ski town of Wilmington, following a winter with little snow on top of the damage and despair caused by Tropical Storm Irene that pummeled the town last August.Photo credit: Dot's Restaurant...
Jul 17 2012 // Claims involving allegations of alcohol intoxication require careful analysis when determining what policy or policies may apply.Two common theories centered on alcohol-related allegations that come into play include...
Jun 26 2012 // Western Security Surplus Insurance Brokers has launched a bar, tavern and restaurant program in California. This is a brand new program in the California market, offering businesses products with access to an A- X rated,...
Jun 4 2012 // Montana State Prison inmate files suit for $2.2 million in federal court after he injures a toe when his foot got caught in a grain auger at the prison dairy.A Howard County, Indiana, inmate files a lawsuit claiming the...
May 24 2012 // A southwest Ohio restaurant owner has been convicted of insurance fraud for two reported break-ins that authorities say were staged.Forty-four-year-old Eva Christian could face up to 17 years in prison when sentenced June...
May 23 2012 // Two former employees are accused of torching a Western Sizzlin restaurant in Thibodaux, La., early on May 21.Police say 18-year-old Donavan Cade Hoffpauir and 22-year-old Derrick Hebert, both of Thibodaux, were arrested on...
May 21 2012 // Claims involving allegations of alcohol intoxication require careful analysis when determining what policy or policies may apply.John P. Cunningham and Julia B. Jackson say two common theories centered on alcohol-related...
May 21 2012 // The Mississippi Court of Appeals has upheld a ruling that the owners of a Bay St. Louis restaurant cannot collect more than $300,000 they claimed to be owed by a local insurance agent after their business washed away in...
Apr 26 2012 // The Mississippi Court of Appeals has upheld a ruling that the owners of a Bay St. Louis restaurant cannot collect more than $300,000 they claimed to be owed by a local insurance agent after their business washed away in...
Apr 12 2012 // Part of a class-action lawsuit against Brinker International Inc. can proceed, the California Supreme Court ruled on Thursday, in a closely watched case about employee meal and rest breaks at the company’s...
Mar 26 2012 // Bennie Dale Morris used to be a regular at Frank’s Place — eating meals and drinking coffee several times a day at the smoke-filled cafe — until the restaurant owner’s joking around got a little too...
Mar 7 2012 // The former general manager of a restaurant co-owned by Paula Deen claimed in a lawsuit filed Monday she was sexually harassed and subjected to a hostile work environment rife with sexual innuendo, physical intimidation and...
Mar 2 2012 // A renowned Charleston, S.C. restaurant has been named as a defendant in a wrongful death case.The Post and Courier of Charleston reported that a lawsuit seeking unspecified damages has been brought against the restaurant...
Mar 2 2012 // Three Vale Training Solution instructors, with varying backgrounds, have one thing in common: They are bringing their expertise in insurance to students of Insurance Journal‘s Academy of Insurance.According to Mary...
Feb 22 2012 // Hattiesburg nightclub and bar owners say many smaller nightspots would be put out of business by a proposal to require on-site parking lots and at least three guards at every bar.The City Council has scheduled a public...
Feb 7 2012 // A title insurance and mortgage services company that already owns a stake in the Bakers Square restaurant chain is buying the restaurant operator O’Charley’s Inc., the companies announced.Fidelity National...
Jan 23 2012 // A federal appeals court has rejected a lawsuit brought against KBR Inc. and Halliburton Co. by the families of two convoy drivers killed in a 2004 insurgent attack in Iraq.The U.S. Court of Appeal for the 5th Circuit,...
Jan 12 2012 // A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected a lawsuit brought against KBR Inc. and Halliburton Co. by the families of two convoy drivers killed in a 2004 insurgent attack in Iraq.The U.S. Court of Appeal for the 5th...
Dec 15 2011 // Nine Chuck E. Cheese restaurants in the San Francisco Bay area have been fined a total of more than $28,000 for violating federal child labor laws.The U.S. Labor Department, which announced the fines this week, said...