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Restaurant Work Injury Claims Account for 4% of Calif. Workers’ Comp Benefit Payments

Mar 2 2010 // Restaurant workers accounted for 6.1 percent of all California job injury claims, but only 4.1 percent of the state’s workers’ compensation benefit payments from 2000 to 2008, the California Workers’...

New York Agency Releases Upscale Restaurant Coverage

Feb 23 2010 // The City and Suburban Lifestyles Restaurant Insurance Market unveiled a new policy in New York that will target fine dining establishments, commonly referred to as “white tablecloth” restaurants, upscale...

Unisource Program Administrators Opens Restaurant Program

Jan 19 2010 // Oklahoma-based Unisource Program Administrators (UPA) has launched a new workers’ compensation specialty program for restaurants. The restaurant specialty program aimed at offering competitive rates to multi-unit...

Montana Court Upholds Notice Rule in Lawsuits Against Bars

Jan 7 2010 // A sharply divided Montana Supreme Court has upheld a state law that requires someone planning to sue a bar over liability in a drunken driving crash to notify the bar within 180 days of the crash.The Supreme Court issued...

Momentous Launches Restaurant Insurance Specialty Practice

Nov 24 2009 // Momentous Insurance Brokerage of Van Nuys, Calif., has launched a restaurant insurance specialty practice. Some of the risk management services offered include contract review, loss control and inspection, in-house claims...

Third Lawsuit Filed Against Oklahoma Eatery Over E. Coli Outbreak

Oct 2 2009 // Attorneys for 14 people sickened by an August 2008 outbreak of E. coli have filed a lawsuit seeking more than $3 million from the operators of a Locust Grove restaurant where the bacteria originated.The complaint was filed...

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...

Washington State Bars Iowa-Based Agent

Sep 22 2009 // Washington’s Office of the Insurance Commissioner has ordered a Des Moines-based, former insurance agent to immediately stop selling what are apparently fake insurance policies.Brenda L. MacLaren-Beattie and The...

Oregon Restaurants Get Rating Return from Workers’ Compensation Group

Sep 11 2009 // Liberty Northwest, a Liberty Mutual Agency Markets regional company, announced strong return results for its Liberty Northwest/Oregon Restaurant Association (LNW/ORA) workers’ compensation insurance program. The...

Study: 1 in 10 Binge Drinkers Gets Behind the Wheel

Sep 2 2009 // One in 10 binge drinkers got behind the wheel the last time they drank heavily. And half of those drivers left from a bar, restaurant or nightclub after downing five or more drinks, a new study has found.The study is being...

Liberty Northwest Distributes Dividend for Oregon Restaurant Program

Jun 30 2009 // The Liberty Northwest Board of Directors recently declared the ninth consecutive dividend earned for restaurants participating in the Oregon Restaurant Association (ORA) Safety Group Dividend Property & Liability...

Attacked in a Restaurant: The Insurance Implications of Assault and Battery

May 18 2009 // Being attacked by one or several restaurant employees is unexpected and somewhat disturbing. But it happened so quickly I could not react quickly enough to avoid being victimized.The Setup My wife arranged a surprise...

What’s So Special About Special Event Insurance?

Apr 6 2009 // The pitfalls of not placing special-event coverage, when it’s truly needed and available, can result in catastrophic losses to your insured, and possibly even damage the credibility of your agency and errors and...

Utah Opens Bars to Public, Increases Liability Coverage Requirements

Mar 23 2009 // Utah bar owners will soon have to increase their liability coverage, as getting into a bar is becoming easier. The state’s legislative leaders and Gov. Jon Huntsman agreed to eliminate the state’s...

Utah Opens Bars to Public, Increases Liability Coverage Requirements

Mar 11 2009 // Getting into a bar in Utah is about to become a lot easier.Legislative leaders and Gov. Jon Huntsman agreed to eliminate the state’s much-criticized private club system. Utah is the only state in the country that...

Utah House Committee Votes to Redefine Intoxicated

Mar 6 2009 // Utah bars and restaurants could soon get in trouble for serving someone who isn’t legally intoxicated, but shows signs of being drunk.A Utah House committee unanimously approved a bill that’s intended to make...

Mass. Man Faces Insurance Fraud Charges Over Broken Tooth Claims

Mar 4 2009 // A Massachusetts man has been arraigned in Suffolk Superior Court in connection with allegedly submitting false dental injury reports to insurance companies in order to receive cash settlements.Tod Schaffer, 42, is charged...

Defense Act Bars Suits Against Blackwater

Feb 22 2009 // The survivors of four Blackwater Worldwide contractors killed in a grisly ambush in Iraq five years ago have suffered another setback in their legal battle with the company.A federal administrative law judge in North...

Judge: Defense Insurance Act Bars Suits Against Subcontractor Blackwater

Feb 12 2009 // The survivors of four Blackwater Worldwide contractors killed in a grisly ambush in Iraq five years ago have suffered yet another setback in their legal battle with the company.A federal administrative law judge in North...

Maryland Suit Claims Restaurant Drink was Cleaning Chemical

Feb 6 2009 // A Baltimore woman says when she ordered an iced tea at a local McDonald’s restaurant last year, employees gave her a cup containing a cleaning chemical.Caryl Jones has filed a $100,000 lawsuit in Baltimore City...