All the headlines from our Restaurant Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Nov 3 2008 // Food poisoning defendants should not be granted a special, protected status with a “heightened” standard of causation, the California Court of Appeal has ruled.According to court documents in Alexis Sarti v....
Oct 22 2008 // A Washington, D.C. fire official says a two-alarm fire at a Georgetown restaurant caused about $1 million in damage, but the cause is still under investigation. Spokesman Alan Etter says investigators believe the fire...
Sep 30 2008 // Three years after Hurricane Katrina brought New Orleans’ restaurant industry to its knees, Hurricane Ike has delivered a crippling blow to three New Orleans area restaurant families.Middendorf’s, the legendary...
Sep 19 2008 // A recent national survey of restaurant decision-makers finds that they place too much emphasis on the price of their workers’ compensation insurance, potentially forgoing the long-term financial benefits of accident...
Aug 21 2008 // Massachusetts lawmakers have approved legislation converting the state’s liquor liability insurer of last resort into a competitive mutual insurance company offering liquor liability insurance to the entire...
Jul 24 2008 // The Liberty Northwest Board of Directors recently declared a 10 percent dividend of premiums earned for restaurants participating in the Oregon Restaurant Association (ORA) Safety Group Dividend Property & Liability...
Jul 21 2008 // North Carolina officials announced a recall of fresh jalapeño peppers and avocados distributed in North Carolina after samples from a food distributor tested positive for salmonella.The N.C. Department of Agriculture and...
Jul 8 2008 // Massachusetts lawmakers have approved legislation converting the state’s liquor liability insurer of last resort into a competitive mutual insurance company offering liquor liability insurance to the entire...
Jun 16 2008 // Eight years after a 3-year-old girl died from exposure to tainted meat at a Sizzler restaurant, her family reached a $13.5 million settlement with the company’s meat supplier and others, according to court records....
Jun 11 2008 // Whether it’s Salmonella in tomatoes or E. coli-tainted spinach, outbreaks of food-borne illness are scaring people away from some foods and shaking their confidence in U.S. food safety procedures.“Food in the...
Jun 4 2008 // A Massachusetts employer is not entitled to recover any increased workers’ compensation costs from a third party responsible for injuring its employee.The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that the...