All the headlines from our South Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 19 2018 // South Carolina has alerted insurers of several changes to loss costs for the state’s voluntary and assigned risk workers’ compensation markets and has issued a requirement that updated loss cost multipliers be...
Feb 19 2018 // South Carolina Department of Insurance (SCDOI) assisted South Carolina insurance consumers in receiving $4,997,748 in insurance-related payments in 2017, according to a statement from Director Ray Farmer.These recovered...
Feb 16 2018 // A helicopter’s crash landing in South Carolina this week may have been triggered by a civilian drone, which would make it the first drone-related crash of an aircraft in the U.S.The incident on Wednesday involved a...
Feb 12 2018 // The wife of a conductor killed in the crash of an Amtrak train with a parked freight train in South Carolina earlier this month filed suit Thursday against Amtrak and the other rail company, saying they were to blame for...
Feb 8 2018 // South Carolina has alerted insurers of several changes to loss costs for the state’s voluntary and assigned risk workers’ compensation markets, and has issued a requirement that updated loss cost multipliers be...
Feb 7 2018 // Railway signals were out while crews installed a safety system that could have prevented the exact type of crash that killed two people in South Carolina when an Amtrak train was diverted to a side track and slammed...
Feb 6 2018 // South Carolina Department of Insurance (SCDOI) assisted South Carolina insurance consumers in receiving $4,997,748 in insurance-related payments in 2017, according to a statement from Director Ray Farmer.These recovered...
Feb 5 2018 // Amtrak blamed a freight rail operator for causing a crash on Sunday that killed two people and injured more than 100 others when one of its passenger trains was diverted onto a side track and slammed into a parked,...
Feb 5 2018 // A guardrail manufacturer created a product whose design flaws led to one woman’s death and another’s permanent disfigurement, according to two lawsuits filed Jan. 31.The lawsuits filed in South Carolina and...
Feb 5 2018 // A South Carolina school district has sued an insurance brokerage and several insurance companies, saying the district was sold excessive policies and charged too much.The Berkeley County School District filed suit in U.S....
Jan 31 2018 // More than two dozen South Carolina doctors have been investigated for possible sexual misconduct in the last five years, according to a newspaper review of records of the state Board of Medical Examiners. The Post and...
Jan 22 2018 // A South Carolina school district has sued an insurance brokerage and several insurance companies, saying the district was sold excessive policies and charged too much.The Berkeley County School District filed suit in U.S....
Jan 5 2018 // A brutal winter storm smacked the coastal Southeast with a rare blast of snow and ice Wednesday, hitting parts of Florida, Georgia and South Carolina with their heaviest snowfall in nearly three decades.The same system...
Jan 4 2018 // AmWINS Group, Inc., a global distributor of specialty insurance products and services, has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Seacoast Brokers, LLC, a South Carolina-based personal lines specialty MGA that designs,...
Dec 27 2017 // Authorities say 54 people are without a home after a Christmas Eve fire at a South Carolina apartment complex that investigators say was intentionally set. Spartanburg Fire Marshall Brad Hall said no one was seriously...
Dec 20 2017 // South Carolina’s governor announced Monday that he’s using executive orders to limit opioid prescriptions under two state programs and start a response team to look for ways to fight abuse of the powerful...
Nov 6 2017 // If oceans warm at a rate predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the United Nation-sponsored group that assesses climate change research and issues periodic reports, expected financial losses caused by...
Nov 6 2017 // President Donald Trump has issued a declaration that makes federal aid available to parts of South Carolina recovering from Hurricane Irma. The declaration issued in October means federal aid can now be used to supplement...
Oct 31 2017 // Six people are recovering from injuries treated at hospitals and more needed first aid after a pickup truck hit a vehicle carrying people on a nighttime hay ride in South Carolina.The Island Packet of Hilton Head reported...
Oct 30 2017 // A former South Carolina police officer fired after a photo of him posing in Confederate flag underwear appeared online has settled a wrongful termination lawsuit.North Charleston city attorney Brady Hair tells the Post and...