All the headlines from our South Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 23 2018 // The floor of a condominium clubhouse near Clemson University collapsed during a large private party early Sunday, hurtling dozens of people into the basement, authorities said.About 30 people were taken to local hospitals...
Oct 18 2018 // The Waccamaw River near the South Carolina coast has finally gone back into its banks after 29 days of flooding following Hurricane Florence.The National Weather Service says the river level at Conway dipped below the...
Oct 15 2018 // Turbeville Insurance Agency (TIA) of South Carolina has hired Graham Gardner as vice president of Large Construction Insurance in the company’s Columbia location.Gardner has more than 20 years of experience in the...
Oct 12 2018 // In the storm-weary Carolinas, Hurricane Michael’s approach stoked fresh fears among homeowners who still have tarps on their roofs or industrial dehumidifiers drying their floors from destruction left by Hurricane...
Oct 10 2018 // Utilities are warning that lights in the Carolinas may go out for the second time in a month, thanks to Hurricane Michael.Duke Energy Corp. said Michael may trigger outages, some lasting for several days, in North Carolina...
Oct 4 2018 // The family of a South Carolina woman who fell down an elevator shaft to her death has been awarded a $600,000 settlement. Rae Gilmore was a volunteer and dealer at Blackhorse Antiques who was in her 70s in 2015. Cherokee...
Oct 4 2018 // Turbeville Insurance Agency (TIA) of South Carolina has hired Jack Godbold to the company’s executive team as the Small Commercial Lines director. In this role, Godbold will also oversee many of TIA’s high...
Oct 2 2018 // John Canonico, owner of Brightway, Oviedo-Winter Springs in Oviedo, Fla., a Brightway Insurance Agency owner for the past six years, has teamed up with his son, Michael Canonico, to open Brightway, The James Island Agency...
Oct 1 2018 // Insurance industry losses from Hurricane Florence, which hit the Carolinas mid-September as a Category 1 storm, will be manageable and not have a severe impact on insurers, according to experts.As the storm turned out to...
Oct 1 2018 // South Carolina’s highest court has ruled a woman’s DUI charge shouldn’t be dismissed because her car crashed a few feet outside the city whose officer detained her.Jennifer Lynn Alexander was found inside...
Oct 1 2018 // The South Carolina Department of Insurance has issued two Hurricane Florence-related notices to all property and casualty insurers doing business in the state.SCDOI Director Ray Farmer issued an emergency regulation Sept....
Sep 28 2018 // The last community in the way of Hurricane Florence’s floodwaters as they slowly flow to the sea got some good news Wednesday – the predictions aren’t as dire as they once were.And it appears the Waccamaw...
Sep 26 2018 // The soggy remnants of Florence keep causing chaos in coastal South Carolina long after the hurricane swirled ashore, with rivers still flowing far beyond their banks and a new storm gathering more rain just...
Sep 25 2018 // Insurance Office of America (IOA) has added Leroy Maxwell to its Charleston, S.C., location as a risk management specialist. Before joining IOA, Maxwell served as a commercial producer with Turbeville Insurance Agency,...
Sep 25 2018 // Insurance industry losses from Hurricane Florence, which hit the Carolinas mid-September as a Category 1 storm, will be manageable and not have a severe impact on insurers, according to experts.As the storm turned out to...
Sep 25 2018 // Thousands of people in and around the city of Georgetown, South Carolina, were urged to evacuate on Monday as two rivers gorged with rain from long-departed Hurricane Florence will flood the area this week.More than 10...
Sep 24 2018 // Major flooding remains in eastern North Carolina more than a week after Hurricane Florence made landfall.Gov. Roy Cooper said Saturday that nine of the state’s river gauges are at major flood stage and four others...
Sep 21 2018 // Hurricane Florence is still wearing out the Carolinas, where residents have endured an agonizing week of violent winds, torrential rain, widespread flooding, power outages and death.Frustration and sheer exhaustion are...
Sep 21 2018 // Most states have yet to adopt a cyber security model law for the insurance industry like the one approved by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners in 2017, but one expert believes the industry should be...
Sep 18 2018 // Insured losses from Hurricane Florence will reach $2.5 billion, according to an estimate from Karen Clark & Co.The estimate of insured losses to residential, commercial, and industrial properties and autos comes from...