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Mass. LLJUA Hikes Limits, Adjusts Rates For Liquor Liability Coverage

Jun 8 2005 // The Liquor Liability Joint Underwriting Association of Massachusetts now offers coverage up to $1 million per person and $1 million per occurrence.The previous coverage limit was $500,000 per person and $1 million per...

AMC West Writing Bar/Tavern/Restaurants in Nevada

Jun 7 2005 // Bob Kindness, vice president and general manager of the Scottsdale, Ariz.-based branch of AMC, announced that Nevada has been added to its nationwide bar, tavern and restaurant package program for general liability...

Friedlander’s N.Y. United Restaurants’ Safety Group Pays 40% Dividend

Jun 7 2005 // The Friedlander Group Inc., the group manager for United Restaurants of New York Workers’ Compensation Safety Group #556, underwritten by the N.Y. State Insurance Fund, paid a 40 percent dividend to approximately 740...

Pa. Lawmaker Wants Shield Against Obesity Lawsuits

Apr 26 2005 // A state legislator wants to add Pennsylvania to the list of states that protect the food industry from lawsuits in which people blame restaurants and other food vendors for making them fat.Rep. Douglas Reichley, R-Lehigh,...

Argonaut Unit Partners with N. C. Restaurant Assoc.

Apr 10 2005 // Great Central Insurance Company, a member of San Antonio-based Argonaut Group Inc.’s Specialty Commercial segment, announced it has formed a strategic partnership with the North Carolina Restaurant Association to...

‘Cheeseburger’ Bills Fill State Lawmakers’ Plates

Mar 7 2005 // Nebraska state Sen. Jeanne Combs used to weigh more than 300 lbs., and she hopes that fact will carry some weight in her campaign to prohibit people from suing the fast-food industry for making them fat.Combs, who...

GL/Property – Restaurant and Hospitality

Feb 7 2005 // Nuts & Bolts: Wausau Insurance rolled out the latest in a series of Wausau Express package policies for property and general liability–with the newest versions designed for restaurant and hospitality businesses....

GL/Property – Restaurant and Hospitality

Feb 7 2005 // Nuts & Bolts: Wausau Insurance rolled out the latest in a series of Wausau Express package policies for property and general liability–with the newest versions designed for restaurant and hospitality businesses....

Restaurants, Hospitality

Jan 24 2005 // Nuts & Bolts: Wausau Insurance rolled out the latest in a series of Wausau Express package policies for property and general liability–with the newest versions designed for restaurant and hospitality businesses....

Wausau Streamlines Property, GL for Restaurants and Hospitality Businesses

Jan 10 2005 // Wisconsin-based property/casualty carrier Wausau Insurance has rolled out the latest in a series of Wausau Express package policies for property and general liability, with the newest versions designed to streamline...

Maryland Hunts for Motives Behind State’s Largest Residential Arson

Jan 3 2005 // An arson that destroyed part of a Greenbelt, Maryland-area development with many black homeowners was “an effort to wipe out a community” and authorities are “very carefully investigating” whether...

Restaurants put risk management on the menu

Jan 2 2005 // The restaurant marketplace is becoming more complex than ever with food safety, marketing dominance by the chains and globalization on the minds of owners. Also, frivolous lawsuits against restaurants abound, so it...

Restaurants ‘Slipping and Tripping’ into Financial Disaster

Nov 29 2004 // Restaurant Insurance Corp. (RIC) a Greenwood Village, Colo.-based specialty insurance company, released findings from a study of claims filed by its insured restaurants since 2002 showing that slips, trips, and falls by...

Restaurant Package

Nov 8 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Venture Programs Inc. added a restaurant package through Alea North America Insurance Co. to its hospitality program. The restaurant package includes property, general liability, liquor liability,...

New Admitted Restaurant Package Program from SAIS

Oct 20 2004 // Richard Swoy, chairman of Superior Access Insurance Services Inc., announced that SAIS has added another financially stable, “A+” rated admitted carrier. According to Swoy, “This is just the beginning of...

Restaurant Package

Oct 11 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Venture Programs Inc. added a restaurant package through Alea North America Ins. Co. to its Venture Hospitality program. The restaurant package includes property, general liability, liquor liability,...

Restaurant Package

Oct 11 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Venture Programs Inc. added a restaurant package through Alea North America Insurance Co. to its hospitality program. The restaurant package includes property, general liability, liquor liability,...

Restaurant Package

Sep 20 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Venture Programs Inc. added a restaurant package through Alea North America Ins. Co. to its Venture Hospitality program. The restaurant package includes property, general liability, liquor liability,...

Restaurant Package

Sep 20 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Venture Programs Inc. added a restaurant package through Alea North America Ins. Co. to its Venture Hospitality program. The restaurant package includes property, general liability, liquor liability,...

Restaurants Serving Liquor

Sep 6 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Midlands Management Corp. is offering a new market for restaurants that serve liquor.Dollars: Policy limits of $750,000 property per location are available and $1 million-$2 million limit for liability....