All the headlines from our Restaurant Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Jan 28 2009 // The Wisconsin Supreme Court says a former high school cheerleader cannot sue a teammate who dropped her while practicing a stunt in a case closely watched in the cheerleading world.Brittany Noffke was a cheerleader at...
Jan 22 2009 // Authorities in a small North Dakota coal mining town want bar owners to install surveillance systems after a rash of brawls that some people liken to those seen in John Wayne’s Western movies.Bar owners say the...
Jan 13 2009 // Witnesses testified that businessman and former Auburn University’s punter Tommy Lunceford Jr. was in a dispute with a couple leasing his Gulf Shores (Alabama) restaurant and faced foreclosure when the building...
Jan 13 2009 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company recently announced a $3,162,738 dividend to the Texas Restaurant Association (TRA) group discount program. This marks the largest dividend in Texas Mutual’s history. It was based...
Jan 9 2009 // Federal agents have arrested and charged former Auburn University punter Tommy Lunceford Jr. with arson, obstruction of justice and intimidating law enforcement officers in a fire that destroyed his restaurant building in...