Latest South Carolina Headlines
All the headlines from our South Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
South Carolina Company Sues Ex-Worker Over Twitter Followers
Dec 31 2011 // An Internet company in South Carolina has sued one of its former employees, saying the worker cost the company thousands of dollars in lost business when he took 17,000 Twitter followers with him when he left the...
South Carolina Insurance Director Black Resigns
Dec 29 2011 // South Carolina is looking for a new insurance commissioner. Eleven months after being nominated for the job by Gov. Nikki Haley, David Black has resigned. Haley has named Gwen Fuller-McGriff as acting director of the...
South Carolina State Worker Seeks Free Speech Damages Over Firing
Dec 27 2011 // A former South Carolina state employee has filed a federal lawsuit over his termination earlier this year after a diversity training session, an action he says amounts to trampling his free speech rights. The State...
Former South Carolina Governor’s Brother Denies Liability for Pool Drowning
Dec 20 2011 // The brother of former Gov. Mark Sanford and his wife deny they are liable for the death of a 6-year-old boy found dead in a pool during a party they hosted. The Island Packet of Hilton Head reported that John and Julia...
South Carolina Police Say Woman Had Insurance on 4 Slain Family Members
Dec 14 2011 // A woman charged with killing four members of her family had $700,000 worth of life insurance policies taken out on the victims, a detective testified in court Monday. After hearing the Pickens County investigator’s...
South Carolina Court Throws Out Claims Over Softball Game Injury
Dec 7 2011 // People playing contact sports assume the risk they will be injured, South Carolina’s Supreme Court ruled this week, upholding a lower court’s ruling that said a man injured in a softball game should have known...
South Carolina Judge Awards Sex Abuse Victim $14 Million
Nov 18 2011 // A South Carolina Circuit Court judge has awarded a 27-year-old woman more than $14 million in civil damages in a suit brought against a former stepfather who sexually abused her as a child. The woman, Kelly Waldron Bowles,...
6 Killed, Dozens Injured in Southeast Storms
Nov 18 2011 // At least six people have been killed and dozens more injured as a storm system that spawned several possible tornadoes moved across the Southeast. Suspected tornadoes were reported Wednesday in Louisiana, Mississippi,...
Merck Settles Vioxx Suits from New York, Florida, South Carolina
Nov 15 2011 // Merck & Co. has reached settlements to resolve lawsuits from the states of New York, Florida and South Carolina alleging the company misled state regulators about the dangers of the painkiller Vioxx, according to court...
Florida Man Wins $1M Claim Against South Carolina Lawyer
Oct 25 2011 // A federal jury has awarded a Florida man $1 million in punitive damages against his former Charleston lawyer. The Post and Courier reported that a jury in Columbia ruled against attorney Robert Lowe Jr. in the legal...
Families of South Carolina Boat Crash Victims Settle
Oct 5 2011 // The families of two women killed in a boat crash on Lake Murray last year will each be paid nearly $250,000 by the family of the man who authorities say caused the collision. The State newspaper reported that the...
Burns & Wilcox Acquires South Carolina Wholesale Broker
Oct 3 2011 // Wholesale broker Burns & Wilcox has purchased Kimbrell Insurance Group Inc., a wholesale broker and underwriting manager in South Carolina. Kimbrell was founded in 1986 and is located in the Myrtle Beach, S.C. area....
South Carolina Dog Bite Case
Sep 19 2011 // South Carolina’s Supreme Court has unanimously agreed to let a lower court decide if a landlord is liable for damages in a dog bite case. The Supreme Court’s decision says landlords could be found liable for a...
South Carolina Targets Copper Theft
Sep 5 2011 // South Carolina law enforcement officers and insurers hope a new state law will cut down on thieves destroying air-conditioning units, farm equipment and other property to sell the copper inner parts for scrap. No law can...
Irene Inflicts Only Minor Damage in South Carolina
Aug 29 2011 // Hurricane Irene spun away from South Carolina on Saturday, leaving behind only minor damage and residents breathing a sigh of relief. The storm came closest to South Carolina early Saturday, a few hours before it made...
North, South Carolina Coastal Insurance Plans Ready for Hurricane Irene
Aug 24 2011 // Caught square in the path of Irene, the first major hurricane of the season, the coastal insurance plans in North and South Carolina are prepared to absorb what may be their first major losses in years. Both plans appear...
South Carolina City Pulls Plug on Speed Cameras But Still Faces Lawsuit
Aug 23 2011 // The South Carolina city of Ridgeland still faces a legal battle over its use of speed cameras on Interstate 95, even though the city ended the program months ago. The State newspaper of Columbia, S.C., reported that...
Insurers Oppose Change in South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Medical Fees
Aug 22 2011 // A new South Carolina regulation for calculating medical fees in worker injury cases has set off opposition from insurers and business groups that claim it favors certain medical providers over others and will increase...
South Carolina Law to Curb Copper Theft Takes Effect Next Week
Aug 12 2011 // South Carolina law enforcement officers said they hope a new state law will cut down on thieves destroying air-conditioning units, farm equipment and other property to sell the copper inner parts for scrap. Most of the...
Kitzman Named as Next Texas Commissioner of Insurance
Aug 1 2011 // Eleanor Kitzman is slated to become the next Texas Commissioner of Insurance on Aug. 15, 2011. Kitzman, the outgoing executive director of the South Carolina Budget and Control Board and past director of the South Carolina...
