Latest South Carolina Headlines
All the headlines from our South Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
News Briefs
Oct 17 2005 // ALABAMA AIIA Conference, Educational Sessions The Alabama Independent Insurance Agents has scheduled five upcoming seminars in Mobile, Birming-ham and Huntsville. Oct. 19, Small and Rural Agents Conference, two topics,...
S.C. Attorney General Adds Staff to Target Insurance Scams
Oct 11 2005 // South Carolina’s Attorney General’s Office is beefing up its Fraud Division staff to reduce a backlog of cases and answer critics who say the department isn’t tough enough on insurance scams. The office...
South Carolina Tweaking Hurricane Preparedness Plans
Oct 3 2005 // Emergency workers along the South Carolina coast are tweaking hurricane preparedness plans in the wake of Gulf Coast storms Katrina and Rita. According to the Columbia State, officials are looking into whether there are...
S.C. Court Denies Faulty Workmanship Coverage in Bituminous Case
Sep 29 2005 // The South Carolina Supreme Court issued its decision in the case of L-J, Inc. v. Bituminous Fire and Marine Insurance Co., Sept. 26, holding that faulty workmanship is not considered an accidental event or...
Wilmington Trust Expands Captive Insurance Management Services
Sep 28 2005 // Wilmington Trust, a provider of specialized management and fiduciary services to corporations worldwide, is expanding the reach of its captive insurance management services. Wilmington Trust entered the growing captive...
S.C. Woman Receives Eight Years for Burning Her Vehicle
Sep 22 2005 // A South Carolina woman has pleaded guilty to one count of insurance fraud after she claimed her vehicle was stolen and burned, according to state Attorney General Henry McMaster. Shaunta M. Dukes told police she had been...
NICB: Rise in S.C. Auto Thefts
Aug 24 2005 // There were more than 22,000 vehicles stolen in South Carolina in 2004 according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, which reports that theft rates rose for the sixth year in a row. NICB reports the Florence, S.C....
AIA Calls 98 Percent Increase in Second Injury Fund a ‘Tax’ on S.C. Employers
Aug 24 2005 // The South Carolina Second Injury Fund for workers’ compensation has approved a record-breaking 98 percent annual increase in the Fund’s 2005 assessment charged to employers, another indication that repeal of...
S.C. Gov. Sanford Appoints Task Force to Study Workers’ Comp
Jul 28 2005 // A 33 percent rate increase proposed by the National Council on Compensation Insurance has motivated Gov. Mark Sanford to form a task force to study the state’s workers’ compensation system. The task force will...
South Carolina Insurance Company, Consolidated American Insurance Liquidations Continue
Jul 27 2005 // Liquidation efforts are continuing for two companies, South Carolina Insurance Company and the Consolidated American Insurance Company, according to South Carolina’s Special Deputy Liquidator J. Smith Harrison...
DOI Slates June 23, 24 S.C. Property Insurance Forum
Jun 14 2005 // The direction South Carolina is headed, how it is addressing the challenges of increasing capacity, fostering competition and providing consumers with options will be discussed during the June 23 and 24 annual Property...
‘Miss Piggy,’ Hurricane Center Forecasters Visit South Carolina, Florida
May 23 2005 // Charleston, S.C., and Jacksonville, Fla., were two of five cities the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Hurricane Center forecasters and NOAA Aircraft Operations Center crew visited during a May 2-6...
S.C. Bill to Require Insurance Coverage for Mental Illnesses
May 13 2005 // The South Carolina Senate and House have approved legislation requiring health insurers to include coverage for some mental illnesses and it has been passed on to Governor Mark Sanford for his signature. The legislation...
S.C. Malpractice Premiums Going Up 12.7 Percent in July
May 12 2005 // Despite a bill signed into law last month in South Carolina capping pain and suffering awards in medical malpractice lawsuits, two of the state’s largest malpractice insurers have announced plans to increase...
Entrepreneurial Spirit and Trust: Marks of Today’s Successful MGA
Apr 18 2005 // An Interview with Francis Johnson, AAMGA President-Elect Francis Johnson, president of Johnson and Johnson Inc., of Charleston, South Carolina, becomes president of the American Association of Managing General Agents in...
SOUTH CAROLINA INSURANCE CO. INSOLVENT
Apr 18 2005 // South Carolina Insurance Co., part of the Columbia-based Seibels Bruce group, has been declared insolvent by state insurance regulators and will be liquidated. The company and its subsidiary, Consolidated American...
S.C. Regulators Declare Two Insurance Cos. Insolvent
Mar 24 2005 // South Carolina Insurance Co., part of the Columbia-based Seibels Bruce family, has been declared insolvent by state insurance regulators and will be liquidated. The company and its subsidiary, Consolidated American...
PROGRESSIVE GROUP DRIVES INTO S.C.
Mar 21 2005 // Progressive Insurance’s Drive Group (Drive Insurance) will offer its commercial auto product in South Carolina through more than 430 agents. Drive(SM) Insurance is The Progressive Group of Insurance Companies’...
S.C. $400,000 Budget Proposal Would Pay to Hire Six Insurance Fraud Prosecutors
Mar 14 2005 // A one-time infusion of $400,000 to permit the South Carolina Attorney General’s Office to hire six new prosecutors to fight insurance fraud has been approved by the Senate Finance Subcommittee to aid in the fight...
Progressive Drives Into S.C. Commercial Auto Insurance Market; Signs 430 Agents
Mar 7 2005 // Progressive Insurance’s Drive Group (Drive Insurance) has announced it will offer its commercial auto product in South Carolina through more than 430 agents. Drive(SM) Insurance is The Progressive Group of Insurance...
