Latest South Carolina Headlines
All the headlines from our South Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
South Carolina Highway Deaths Doubled Over Christmas Holiday
Dec 31 2010 // South Carolina authorities say winter weather contributed to twice as many deaths on the state’s roadways over Christmas weekend this year. Multiple media outlets report that 13 people were killed on state roads and...
Layden, Engles Join South Carolina’s Triest Agency
Dec 29 2010 // Thomas Layden and Abigail Engles have joined Triest Insurance Agency in Charleston. Layden has 10 years of experience having most recently worked for another large insurance agency near Charleston. He will be responsible...
Southeast’s Top Stories: Disasters That Happened and 1 That Didn’t
Dec 23 2010 // The top insurance stories in the Southeast in 2010 included several disasters that caused considerable death and destruction in the region and one that didn’t do as much harm as feared. The April 20 blowout of...
Hogan Joins South Carolina’s Canal Insurance
Dec 16 2010 // Commercial trucking insurer Canal Insurance Co. in Greenville, S.C. announced that Timothy J. Hogan has joined the company as chief administrative officer. With more than 25 years of management experience, Hogan has held...
Outlook: South Carolina Economy to Improve Slowly in 2011
Dec 14 2010 // The South Carolina economy improved in 2010 and will continue to recover in 2011 with better job growth. But the improvement next year will happen slowly. Job growth is expected to increase to 1.2 percent in 2011 from 0.1...
Audit: South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Board Delayed Deposits
Dec 5 2010 // The South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Commission broke state law by not depositing fines because it worried legislators would use the money for something else, according to a state audit. The commission collected...
Audit: South Carolina Workers’ Comp Board Delayed Money Deposits
Nov 29 2010 // The state’s Workers’ Compensation Commission broke state law by not depositing fines as it worried legislators would use the money for something else, according to a state audit. The commission collected but...
South Carolina Parents Sue School Over Son’s Playground Accident
Nov 15 2010 // Two parents are suing the Beaufort County School District for negligence after their son broke both arms on a school playground. Patricia and Ben Stott told The Beaufort Gazette that the Bluffton Elementary School...
Some Question North, South Carolina Injured Worker Data
Nov 14 2010 // A new federal job safety study finds North and South Carolina among the country’s safest states in which to work. But some experts doubt whether the rates accurately reflect which states are safer. North...
Some Question Data on Low Worker Injury Rates in North, South Carolina
Nov 8 2010 // A new federal study estimating the rate of workplace injuries last year finds North and South Carolina among the country’s safest in which to work. But some workplace safety experts doubt whether the rates accurately...
People
Nov 1 2010 // Aubie W. Knight has assumed the role of chief executive officer of the Independent Insurance Agents of Georgia (IIAG). Knight has been with IIAG since 1996. During his tenure, he has been responsible for most of...
South Carolina Deadly Sofa Store Fire Preventable, Says Study
Oct 29 2010 // If modern model building codes and sprinkler requirements had been enforced, the fire that took the lives of 9 firefighters and gutted the Sofa Super Store in Charleston, South Carolina in 2007 could have been prevented, a...
Feds Criticize North, South Carolina on Workplace Safety
Oct 18 2010 // Workplace safety programs in North and South Carolina downplay serious safety problems and levy weak fines, according to an audit released by the U.S. Labor Department. Jordan Barab of the Occupational Safety and Health...
South Carolina Requires Notice to Families of Deaths from Medical Errors
Oct 4 2010 // A new state law designed to notify families of those who die within 24 hours of hospital admittance and invasive surgery is increasing the call volume for some coroner’s investigators. The Ann S. Perdue Independent...
Feds Say North, South Carolina Programs Weak on Workplace Safety
Oct 4 2010 // Workplace safety programs in North and South Carolina downplay serious safety problems and levy weak fines, according to an audit released by the U.S. Labor Department. The audit showed that both states impose weak...
Aflac Expands Presence in South Carolina
Sep 15 2010 // South Carolina’s governor, Mark Sanford, and its insurance commissioner, Scott Richardson, were both in Columbia this week to help Aflac Group Insurance announce a major expansion of the Group’s presence in the...
South Carolina Forms Insurance Funding Program
Sep 3 2010 // South Carolina Insurance Director Scott Richardson, will introduce the new South Carolina Insurance Funding Program (SCIF) during the annual South Carolina Captive Insurance Association Conference, Sept. 13-15 in...
5 Years After Katrina Gulf Coast Building Codes Still Inadequate
Aug 30 2010 // Five years ago, Hurricane Katrina caused an estimated 1,300 tragic deaths as well as $41.1 billion in insured losses across six states. Louisiana and Mississippi suffered the brunt of Katrina’s wrath followed by...
S.C. Firefighter Sentenced for Five Arsons
Aug 25 2010 // A former South Carolina firefighter has been sentenced to five years in prison for setting a series of fires that caused about $1.5 million in damage. The Island Packet of Hilton Head reported that 24-year-old Bryan Yeager...
South Carolina Says Feds Can Hear Case Against AIG
Aug 9 2010 // The federal courts can hear a case alleging that American International Group (AIG) Inc. submitted fraudulent data to South Carolina so that it could charge inflated premiums for workers’ compensation insurance...
