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The Beat Doesn’t Go On as Lawsuits Hit Hospitality Industry for Copyright Infringement
Walk into any hotel lobby, restaurant, or bar with music playing. Even when the music is background noise, it’s integral to the establishment’s ambiance and elevating the guest experience. Yet without proper licensing, establishments are taking a big risk of being hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit. Hotels, bars, and restaurants around the country are…
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Hotel Insurance Q + A [Webinar Recording]
We enjoyed talking with insurance brokers during our latest webinar, a 30-minute session entitled, “Hotel Insurance – Primary, Umbrella and Beyond!” Our attendees brought the energy and the questions – over 25 questions were addressed in the webinar. Brokers, level up your defenses in this hard market. As one of the longest-running programs in the…
Boutique Hotel Insurance: The Coverages Clients Need
After coming for diamonds and J. Crew, millennials are now looking to shake up another industry — hotels. Millennials want authentic, local experiences best found in independent or boutique hotels. Due to demand, this hotel industry segment is growing fast, doubling its market size between 2013 and 2019 before taking a hit in 2020. For insurance…
Food Truck Insurance: Top 4 Exposures To Know
Food trucks began gaining traction in 2008 as social media and a growing interest in street food converged. Los Angeles was home to the first Kogi taco food truck, while New York began serving dumplings out of a truck more than a decade ago.
Hotel Insurance Costs and Coverages for Brokers
Coverages and costs. When it comes down to brass tacks, this is what matters to the insured. They want to know that their hotel insurance will cover them when they need it to and won’t cost them a small fortune. You need to put hotel insurance coverages and costs in perspective, so you can answer…
9 Restaurant Insurance Exposures You Need to Know
Restaurants face several exposures, including those that all businesses face and others specific to the industry and their operation. Restaurant insurance claims stem from property, liability, cyber, crime, and employment practices-related exposures. The key is to ensure the right insurance program and protocols are in place to transfer and mitigate these risks. PROPERTY RESTAURANT INSURANCE…
5 Reasons You Need Distinguished Restaurant Insurance
Distinguished is your one-stop shop for restaurant insurance needs. Watch this quick 1-minute video above highlighting our comprehensive coverage. Or read below to learn more: Reason #1: One-Stop Shop for Restaurants Distinguished offers Property, General Liability, Liquor Liability, EPLI, Umbrella, Cyber, and other product enhancements. You’ll be able to provide exclusive protection from an A+…
14 Ways Hotels Can Mitigate Risk at Onsite Gyms
Accidents will happen… and they can happen at hotel gyms if proper precautions aren’t in place. Some of the worst injuries happen in workout settings. A guest trips over a kettle ball left on the floor while someone else tries yoga and sprains their back. So how can hotels mitigate risks at their onsite fitness…
Hotel Cybersecurity Best Practices
In 2018, after detecting suspicious activity in the reservation database of a Marriott hotel company, security investigators discovered two forms of malware. Hackers had used one program to access the hotel computer system and another to surf its memory for valuable data. The massive security breach stole private information like passport numbers and credit cards…
Ghost Kitchens Insurance Package… A Closer Look
Ghost kitchens, also known as “cloud” or “virtual kitchens,” are cooking facilities chefs and restauranteurs can lease. There are no dining rooms, seats, tables, waiters, hosts/hostesses, cashiers, or patrons. As one publication described them, ghost kitchens are sort of the “We Work” for chefs. In essence, they are physical spaces for operators to create off-premises…
A Closer Look into Primary Hotel Insurance Benefits
Distinguished has been in the hotel insurance business a long time, protecting more than one million of the nation’s hotel rooms with our Umbrella Program. Over the years, we’ve added General Liability (GL), Commercial Auto, and Cyber Liability to our product lines to address and respond to the various exposures hotels face. Now hotel insurance…