All the headlines from our South Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 26 2016 // The Main Street America Group has introduced Main Street Protection Auto, its new private passenger auto insurance program for the preferred/standard marketplace in South Carolina via its statewide network of independent...
Jan 26 2016 // The number of people who died in moped accidents in South Carolina increased 57 percent in 2015 from the year before, leading a legislative supporter of laws for the vehicles to reissue his call for tighter safety.The...
Jan 25 2016 // The South Carolina Department of Insurance (SCDOI) has advised insurers to continue to report P&C claims as per the data call issued for the October 2015 flood event and its aftermath.The data call was originally...
Jan 25 2016 // President Barack Obama has nominated South Carolina Department of Insurance Director Raymond G. Farmer to serve as a member on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Registered Agents and Brokers (NARAB) for...
Jan 19 2016 // President Barack Obama has nominated South Carolina Department of Insurance Director Raymond G. Farmer to serve as a member on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Registered Agents and Brokers (NARAB) for...
Jan 15 2016 // The South Carolina Department of Insurance (SCDOI) has advised insurers to continue to report P&C claims as per the data call issued for the October 2015 flood event and its aftermath.The data call was originally...
Jan 12 2016 // President Barack Obama has nominated four individuals to sit on the 13-member governing board of a new national insurance producer licensing system. They are state insurance regulators from South Carolina and Minnesota and...
Jan 11 2016 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary’s appeal of a $124 million penalty imposed by South Carolina after a jury found the drugmaker had improperly marketed the...
Jan 7 2016 // Most doctors in South Carolina will soon be required to consult a statewide database of patients’ medical history as a way to combat the state’s rampant prescription painkiller problem.The changes will direct...
Jan 3 2016 // Authorities say a hoverboard exploded inside a South Carolina home, causing a small fire but no injuries. The Mauldin Fire Department tells local news outlets one of the popular toys exploded inside a home Dec. 29. Fire...
Dec 31 2015 // Two lawsuits have been filed by the mother of a man who was fatally shot by an Anderson, South Carolina, homeowner who said someone was trying to break into his house.The Anderson Independent-Mail reports Jo Pickens,...
Dec 28 2015 // The state House’s budget leader says he wants to reassure South Carolina farmers devastated by October’s flooding disaster that the Legislature will help them out.Lawmakers must help farmers survive direct crop...
Dec 22 2015 // It’s been a good year for ducks in Charleston as the National Weather Service reports that 2015 has been the wettest year on record.The Weather Service says that the record was set about 1:30 a.m. on Friday when the...
Dec 21 2015 // The mega-storm that devastated South Carolina in early October is estimated to have cost more than $1.4 billion with insurers paying around $181 million of those losses in claims, so far.South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley...
Dec 16 2015 // Authorities say a 51-year-old worker has been killed after a pressurized hose broke loose at the Colgate-Palmolive plant in Greenwood, S.C. Greenwood County Coroner Sonny Cox told media outlets that Billy Alexander of...
Dec 14 2015 // Officials say a plan to install more than 800 surveillance cameras in Myrtle Beach, S.C., is on track to be completed by the end of the month.The Sun-News of Myrtle Beach reports the city is spending more than $2 million...
Dec 14 2015 // The U.S. Small Business Administration announced Dec. 8 that federal Economic Injury Disaster Loans are available to small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small businesses engaged in aquaculture and most...
Dec 9 2015 // Farmers packed the South Carolina Statehouse on Monday to beg Gov. Nikki Haley to ask Congress for money to offset their estimated $376 million in losses from last month’s historic flooding.But the Republican...
Dec 8 2015 // The mega-storm that devastated South Carolina in early October is estimated to have cost more than $1.4 billion with insurers paying around $181 million of those losses in claims, so far.South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley...
Dec 8 2015 // A South Carolina lawmaker is proposing that the state set up an online database where violations, arrests and investigations linked to fraternity and sorority activities at the state’s public colleges can be...