Latest South Carolina Headlines
All the headlines from our South Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
S.C.: E-mail Shows PR Strategy Involving Charleston Fire Investigation
Dec 11 2007 // An e-mail sent by a South Carolina workplace safety official details the agency’s public relations plan to downplay the release of an investigation into a furniture store fire that killed nine firefighters, according...
S.C. Lifts Fire Alert, Says Lengthier Fire Season on Deck
Dec 11 2007 // The South Carolina Forestry Commission has lifted a red flag fire alert that recommended no burning outside. The alert was posted about a week ago because of brisk winds and low humidity, ripe conditions for wildfires....
S.C.-based Insurer Adds Ashley as Controller
Dec 7 2007 // Upstate South Carolina-based insurance agent/brokerage and consulting firm, Rosenfeld Einstein, recently added Neal Ashley as controller. Ashley is a practicing certified public accountant and holds both B.A. and...
Tipster Receives Record Reward for Help in 12 S.C. Arson Cases
Nov 26 2007 // State officials say a tipster called the South Carolina Arson Hotline and helped authorities solve 12 Columbia-area cases. The help garnered a record reward for the anonymous tipster. The South Carolina Insurance News...
S.C. Places Capital Assurance Risk Retention Group in Receivership
Nov 16 2007 // The South Carolina Department of Insurance placed Capital Assurance Risk Retention Group (CARRG) in receivership for the purposes of rehabilitation. On Oct. 31, the Richland County Court of Common Pleas issued an order...
Rosenfeld Einstein Ranked 3rd Best Place to Work in S.C.
Nov 7 2007 // Insurance brokerage and consulting firm Rosenfeld Einstein is ranked third on South Carolina’s 20 Best Places to Work list, compiled by SC BIZ magazine and Best Companies Group of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The Best...
States under cover
Nov 4 2007 // Natural catastrophes — and the affordability and availability of property insurance in disaster-prone areas — have been on center stage in coastal states from the Northeast to the Gulf Coast. This fall, the...
S.C. Workers’ Comp Commission Won’t Follow Sanford Order’s Standard
Oct 29 2007 // The South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Commission unanimously rejected Gov. Mark Sanford’s order to begin using uniform medical standards in deciding how much should be paid to injured workers with long-term...
S.C. Insurance Deptartment Announces Home Mitigation Program Grants
Oct 29 2007 // Fourteen South Carolina homeowners received grants of up to $5,000 each to help strengthen their homes against the high winds associated with hurricanes and other natural disasters. The S.C. Safe Home Grant Program was...
Editor’s Note: No coasting
Oct 27 2007 // While Congress continues to debate whether to launch any sort of national disaster backup plan or add wind coverage to the federal flood program, states are coming up with some of their own ideas — big and small...
8 S.C. chief urges pre-set
Oct 27 2007 // hurricane damage formula Looking to minimize claims litigation 8 West Virginia lawmakers may reassert workers’ comp oversight But will they scare insurers from the state? 9 Florida brings back no-fault Lawmakers add...
S.C. chief urges hurricane damage formula – before storms hit
Oct 27 2007 // News Currents South Carolina Insurance Director Scott Richardson is proposing a loss-allocation method that he hopes will alleviate any confusion between water damage and wind damage the next time a hurricane reduces...
S.C. Clam Farmers Settle for $1.8 Million Following Oil Spill
Oct 22 2007 // More than a dozen South Carolina clam farmers who claimed most of their crop was spoiled by an oil spill five years ago have settled a lawsuit with a shipping line and a dredging firm for nearly $1.8 million. Under the...
S.C. Vehicle Theft Rate Climbs for 8th Straight Year
Oct 10 2007 // The National Insurance Crime Bureau says the 1995 Honda Accord was the most likely automobile to be stolen in South Carolina in 2006. The 1999 Chevrolet full size C/K 1500 pickup ranked second on the list, followed by the...
South Carolina Insurance Department Issues Data Call
Oct 9 2007 // In order to draw new carriers into South Carolina’s exposed coastal areas the Department of Insurance in coordination with the Wind and Hail Underwriting Association (Wind Pool) expanded coverage availability this...
Business cheers as S.C. orders objective workers’ comp standards
Oct 8 2007 // South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford was joined by business groups from across his state when he signed an executive order last month ordering that the Workers’ Compensation Commission apply objective standards when...
COMP INSURERS APPEAL S.C. RATE HIKE REJECTION
Oct 8 2007 // The South Carolina Department of Insurance recently disapproved a request made by the National Council on Compensation Insurance to increase loss costs statewide by 23.7 percent. NCCI State Relations Executive, Amy Quinn,...
News Currents
Oct 8 2007 // Business cheers as S.C. orders objective workers’ comp standards South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford was joined by business groups from across his state when he signed an executive order last month ordering that the...
Comp insurers appeal S.C. rate hike rejection
Oct 8 2007 // The South Carolina Department of Insurance recently disapproved a request made by the National Council on Compensation Insurance to increase loss costs statewide by 23.7 percent. NCCI State Relations Executive, Amy Quinn,...
S.C. Regulator: Probable Maximum Loss Predictability Formula on Horizon
Oct 5 2007 // A pre-established formulaic predictability model would virtually solve the issue of indeterminable loss cause that was so wide-spread in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, according to South Carolina’s Insurance...
