All the headlines from our South Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 3 2018 // No one was hurt when several cars on a freight train derailed in South Carolina.York County Emergency Management Director Chuck Haynes told news outlets that a Norfolk Southern train had several cars derail around 7 a.m....
Jul 17 2018 // J.M. Wilson has added Cassandra Silverman as assistant transportation underwriter to its North Charleston, S.C., office. Silverman is responsible for quoting new and renewal business, corresponding with carrier...
Jul 16 2018 // State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. will decrease its auto rates in North and South Carolina, impacting more than 2 million customers in both states.According to a statement from the insurer, State Farm’s...
Jul 13 2018 // A.M. Best has revised the outlook to positive from stable for the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating (Long-Term ICR) and affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of B++ (Good) and the Long-Term ICR of “bbb” of...
Jul 13 2018 // Federal investigators on Tuesday grilled train company executives about a deadly South Carolina crash that happened earlier this year, asking officials with the company that owns the tracks about changes within the company...
Jul 9 2018 // Federal authorities have been asked to help investigate after 14 fires have been reported within a few miles of each other in less than three months in South Carolina’s capital city.Columbia Police Chief Skip...
Jul 2 2018 // The South Carolina Supreme Court recently opined that an insurer can sue an attorney it hired to defend its policyholder for malpractice.The high court in the case of Sentry Select Insurance Company v. Maybank Law Firm,...
Jun 29 2018 // State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. will decrease its auto rates in North and South Carolina, impacting more than 2 million customers in both states.According to a statement from the insurer, State Farm’s...
Jun 20 2018 // Police across South Carolina are trying to find a man who is taking cars from dealerships across the state. Sumter County deputies said Monday the man most recently stole a new car from a Sumter dealership, drove it to...
Jun 18 2018 // A special state committee says South Carolina is drought free for the first time in nearly two years.The South Carolina Drought Response Committee voted last month to remove 13 mostly western counties from incipient, which...
Jun 18 2018 // South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster conducted a ceremonial signing May 9 on nine opioid related bills in an effort to address the ongoing health crisis in the state.The signing came at an addiction treatment and...
Jun 13 2018 // The South Carolina Supreme Court recently opined that an insurer can sue an attorney it hired to defend its policyholder for malpractice.The high court in the case of Sentry Select Insurance Company v. Maybank Law Firm,...
Jun 8 2018 // South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster conducted a ceremonial signing earlier this week on nine opioid related bills in an effort to address the ongoing health crisis in the state.The signing Monday came at an addiction...
Jun 6 2018 // A South Carolina jury has awarded $12 million to the family of a high school senior who died after an axle fractured on her SUV almost six years ago. The Greenville News reports an Anderson County jury ruled in the case of...
Jun 4 2018 // South Carolina has become the first state to pass a model cybersecurity bill requiring any insurance entity operating in the state to establish and implement a cybersecurity program protecting their business and their...
May 31 2018 // South Carolina has become the first state to pass a cybersecurity bill requiring any insurance entity operating in the state to establish and implement a cybersecurity program protecting their business and their customers...
May 30 2018 // A South Carolina judge declared a mistrial in a case against Johnson & Johnson alleging that exposure to asbestos in its Johnson’s Baby Powder caused a woman’s fatal cancer.Jurors in Darlington County state...
May 18 2018 // Brightway Insurance is continuing its expansion with the opening of five new stores, four of which are located in the Southeast.The new stores that opened in the region include in Florida, South Carolina and Tennessee:...
May 1 2018 // Authorities say 17 people were hurt, two seriously, when a charter bus carrying a high school chorus team crashed in South Carolina.Colleton County Fire-Rescue Chief Barry McRoy tells WCIV-TV the crash happened early...
Apr 30 2018 // The family of a South Carolina woman has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against American Airlines, accusing the company of negligence in her death following a medical emergency during a flight two years ago.In a lawsuit...