Latest South Carolina Headlines
All the headlines from our South Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Former South Carolina Insurance Chief Kitzman Runs for Lieutenant Governor
Mar 31 2010 // South Carolina’s former state insurance director is running for lieutenant governor. Eleanor Kitzman announced she’s running as a Republican. The 53-year-old Columbia resident notes she’s the only...
Declarations
Mar 22 2010 // Kentucky Shock “Shame on you for the blatant, arrogant, self-effacing abuses. Equally shocking is for the board to allow executives involved in the oversight of such abuses to remain.” —Cold Spring Mayor Mark...
South Carolina University Fire Estimated to Cost $4.5 Million
Mar 22 2010 // Officials at a South Carolina university say a fire in a building that featured high-tech classrooms will cost at least $4.5 million to repair. The Herald of Rock Hill reported that Winthrop University officials said it...
Suit in South Carolina Accuses Lasik Eye Clinics of Improper Surgeries
Mar 19 2010 // A federal lawsuit filed Wednesday in South Carolina accuses eye clinics across the country of performing surgeries on patients with pre-existing conditions that should have excluded them as candidates, causing those...
South Carolina High Court Nixes $18 Million Award in Ford Crash
Mar 17 2010 // South Carolina’s highest court has overturned an $18 million verdict against Ford Motor Co. in a fatal crash, ruling that one expert shouldn’t have been allowed to testify about cruise control problems. Sonya...
Criminal Negligence Charges Weighed in Deadly 2007 South Carolina Fire
Mar 17 2010 // The father of a firefighter who died in a 2007 furniture store blaze that killed nine firefighters says families will meet with state fire investigators next week to discuss whether criminal negligence was involved in the...
South Carolina Asked to Extend Immunity for Planned Fires
Mar 15 2010 // Nearly a year after the state’s worst wildfire, forest managers and landowners have asked legislators to give them more protection from lawsuits when they intentionally set fires to reduce debris that could fuel...
South Carolina House Passes $25 Fine for Texting While Driving
Mar 12 2010 // South Carolina motorists who are caught sending or reading text messages while they drive would be fined $25 under legislation that won key House approval this week. With a 98-18 vote, the House gave second reading to a...
Federal Study of Fatal 2007 South Carolina Sofa Store Fire Not Ready
Mar 11 2010 // A complex federal study of a fire that killed nine South Carolina firefighters, already delayed by months, is still months from completion, authorities said. The National Institute of Standards and Technology in...
Families of Firefighters Killed in South Carolina Sofa Store Fire Settle
Mar 10 2010 // Families of eight firefighters killed battling a South Carolina furniture store fire almost three years ago have settled with another group of lawsuit defendants for more than $1.2 million. The June 18, 2007, fire at the...
South Carolina Not Enforcing Vision Law for Senior Drivers
Mar 10 2010 // Seven years after South Carolina changed the way it required drivers to prove their eyesight is adequate, the state has failed to establish a system of notifying people when they need to take vision tests or track who has...
South Carolina Worker Hurt at Job, Housing Covered by Insurance
Mar 7 2010 // A seasonal worker is entitled to workers compensation benefits for an injury sustained after falling at a housing complex supplied by his employer, the South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled. The court sided with the...
Insurers Restricting Coastal Exposure
Mar 7 2010 // The coastal home insurance market continues to tighten. State Farm is only writing a new homeowners policy in Mississippi if another is dropped and Allstate has stopped writing mobile homes on the South Carolina coast....
South Carolina House Advances Cap on Liability Awards
Mar 5 2010 // A proposal to cap how much people can be awarded through civil lawsuits in South Carolina received key approval this week. The House approved the tort reform bill 104-9. It faces another, routine vote before heading to the...
South Carolina Home Mitigation Program Reaches 1,000
Mar 2 2010 // A South Carolina program for coastal homeowners who have taken steps to shield their homes against hurricane winds has awarded more than 1,000 grants in two years. Scott Richardson, director of the South Carolina...
South Carolina’s Love Joins Florida-Based Home Safety Institute
Mar 2 2010 // The Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) in Tampa, Fla. announced that Allison Dean Love has joined the organization as external relations consultant. Love brings 20 years of experience in media relations,...
Allstate Drops Mobile-Home Coverage along South Carolina Coast
Feb 22 2010 // An Allstate spokesman says the company will no longer insure mobile homes along the South Carolina coast. Shane Robinson told The Sun News of Myrtle Beach for a story Saturday that about 2,400 existing customer policies in...
South Carolina Eyes Lawsuit Limits to Help Economy
Feb 21 2010 // South Carolina’s economic recovery could be helped by new limits on lawsuits, claims a business group in urging state lawmakers to consider legislation to do just that. The Senate Judiciary committee is weighing...
South Carolina Considers Allowing Golf Carts on Highways
Feb 18 2010 // Golf carts are a common sight in South Carolina, just not on state roads. But legislation up for debate this week in a House subcommittee would allow people to drive golf carts on the state’s secondary roads as long...
South Carolina Advances Bills Banning Texting, Phoning While Driving
Feb 18 2010 // South Carolina legislators this week advanced bills limiting how drivers use their cell phones behind the wheel. The bill heading to the House floor would ban both text messaging and talking on a hand-held phone, while a...
