What actually drives a California bar or restaurant's liquor-liability non-renewal
California's dram-shop immunity is unusually broad. A non-renewed bar or restaurant account is rarely a classic drunk-driving verdict — it's usually something else.
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Every submission gets matched internally against the carrier relationships most likely to write it — not shopped blind into a dozen inboxes.
A slow market costs you the account. Matched submissions move straight to underwriting, and you're kept posted, even when the answer is no.
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