All the headlines from our South Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 1 2025 // GEICO insurance companies can’t dismiss a South Carolina lawsuit that demands they pay almost $70 million in back taxes and penalties, a federal judge ruled in a case that could ultimately affect how insurance taxes...
Nov 19 2025 // GEICO insurance companies can’t dismiss a South Carolina lawsuit that demands they pay almost $70 million in back taxes and penalties, a federal judge ruled in a case that could ultimately affect how insurance taxes...
Nov 7 2025 // A former South Carolina state lawmaker and injury lawyer has been indicted on federal allegations that he schemed to defraud his legal clients.According to court papers, a federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted former...
Oct 14 2025 // A mass shooting early Sunday at a crowded bar on an idyllic island considered to be the largest Gullah community on the South Carolina coast has left four people dead and at least 20 injured, officials said.A large crowd...
Oct 8 2025 // State agents have so far found no evidence that a fire that destroyed a judge’s home on a South Carolina island was intentionally set, the state’s top law enforcement official said Monday.The Saturday blaze...
Sep 25 2025 // South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Commission Executive Director Gary Cannon is retiring next month after 16 years on the job. The commission has named Kristen McRee, the director of administrative services at the...
Sep 25 2025 // The South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Commission had no legal right to hold on to – for more than 15 years – some $1.8 million set aside by a bankrupt textile manufacturer for injury claims that never...
Sep 24 2025 // King Risk Partners has expanded again in the Southeast with the acquisition of LH Griffith & Co., an agency with offices in Walterboro and Goose Creek, in southeast South Carolina. Griffith agency was founded 25 years...
Aug 26 2025 // A federal appeals court has decertified a class of plaintiffs in a South Carolina lawsuit alleging that Progressive Insurance undervalued total-loss vehicles, the latest turn in multiple, similar suits against U.S. auto...
Aug 12 2025 // The South Carolina Department of Insurance has proposed new rates for credit property insurance, holding the rate steady for household goods but reducing rates for other categories for 2026.Because rate decreases in recent...
Aug 8 2025 // Two South Carolina women filed an auto accident claim with First Acceptance Insurance Co. in May and were paid more than $25,500 for bodily injury medical expenses. Then investigators found out that the women had...
Aug 8 2025 // COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Two deputies shot and injured in a training exercise in South Carolina were wounded by ammunition taken from a plastic bag in a desk drawer and not property tested to see if they were blanks, a...
Aug 1 2025 // COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Workers at a site in South Carolina that once made key parts for nuclear bombs in the U.S. have found a radioactive wasp nest but officials said there is no danger to anyone.Employees who routinely...
Jul 31 2025 // Two weeks after Jaysen Carr spent the Fourth of July swimming and riding on a boat on one of South Carolina’s most popular lakes, he was dead from an amoeba that lives in the warm water and entered his brain through...
Jul 18 2025 // King Risk Partners, a national insurance brokerage with home offices in Gainesville, Florida, has acquired Cummings Insurance Agency in Aiken, South Carolina. Cummings, founded in 2014, has specialized in agricultural and...
Jul 3 2025 // In keeping with state law, the South Carolina Department of Insurance is again asking carriers to submit extensive data on commercial liability and liquor liability coverage in the state.The data should be submitted by...
Jul 1 2025 // South Carolina’s Department of Insurance is reminding carriers that it may soon give extra scrutiny to liquidity and capital as well as investments in subsidiaries’ securities, thanks to a law approved by state...
Jun 16 2025 // South Carolina’s governor has signed a liquor liability and tort-reform bill into law, but some lawmakers said broader changes to the state’s legal system are needed.Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey, who...
Jun 5 2025 // No one was checking IDs or for weapons before a party boat cruise that ended with a shooting that hurt 11 people in South Carolina over Memorial Day weekend, a lawyer for one of the victims said.Police have announced a...
May 29 2025 // South Carolina’s governor has signed a liquor liability and tort-reform bill into law, but some lawmakers said broader changes to the state’s legal system are needed.Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey, who...