All the headlines from our South Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 29 2023 // Outside of the turbulent state of Florida, the Southeastern U.S. saw its share of insurance issues, from carriers pulling out of Georgia to roof-matching requirements in Kentucky to liquor liability problems in South...
Dec 19 2023 // GEORGETOWN, S.C. (AP) — An intense late-year storm barreled up the East Coast on Sunday with heavy rains and strong winds that shattered rainfall records, forced water rescues from flooded streets and washed out...
Dec 15 2023 // GILBERT, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s top education official plans to ask lawmakers for $5 million to put a digital map of every school in the state online and make those maps immediately available on police...
Dec 14 2023 // Jose Castillo didn’t ask his insurance company to defend him from a lawsuit that alleged his shoddy construction caused millions of dollars in water damage to a townhouse project, so his insurer didn’t provide...
Dec 8 2023 // COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — One of the largest labor organizations in the United States petitioned the federal government on Thursday to wrest workplace safety oversight from South Carolina regulators accused of failing to...
Nov 30 2023 // SALEM, S.C. (AP) — An 83-year-old woman who died when she fell through rotting floorboards in a century-old South Carolina house fell down a well shaft the owner didn`t know was there, authorities said.It took...
Nov 29 2023 // For years, South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh looked his anguished clients in the eyes and promised to help them with their medical bills, their suffering or simply to survive. Then he stole most, if not all, of what he...
Nov 21 2023 // Insurance Claims management service Alacrity Solutions Group, has acquired Cross Country Adjusting of Pageland, South Carolina.CCA, founded in 2005, provides residential and commercial property claims adjusting through a...
Nov 8 2023 // SureChoice Underwriters Reciprocal Exchange (SURE), a policyholder-owned coastal insurer, in partnership with SageSure, a large managing general underwriters focused on catastrophe-exposed markets, has announced its...
Oct 30 2023 // South Carolina in 2022 saw a record number of complaints about insurance fraud, and has almost matched the number through the first 10 months of this year.And some state lawmakers are now looking into the reasons for the...
Oct 25 2023 // COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Nine of South Carolina`s 16 elected prosecutors are asking to remove all legislators who are lawyers from a committee that decides which judicial candidates are put before the General Assembly...
Oct 2 2023 // Wanted in South Carolina: $1 million in liquor liability coverage at an affordable premium to prevent closure of establishment.That’s the type of advertisement one can imagine bars and bistros across the Palmetto...
Sep 18 2023 // Wanted in South Carolina: $1 million in liquor liability coverage at an affordable premium to prevent closure of establishment.That’s the type of advertisement one can imagine bars and bistros across the Palmetto...
Sep 18 2023 // The property insurance industry breathed a sigh of relief after Hurricane Idalia landed in a less-populated part of the coast, triggering just a few billion dollars in losses. But regulators have urged insurers to make...
Sep 11 2023 // BLYTHEWOOD, S.C. (AP) — Construction work has been temporarily stopped on a $2 billion new electric vehicle plant in South Carolina being built by a Volkswagen Group-backed group trying to revive a brand that was a...
Sep 5 2023 // The property insurance industry breathed a sigh of relief after Hurricane Idalia landed in a less-populated part of the coast, but regulators have signaled a need to make sure that claims from the area, now topping 10,000,...
Aug 28 2023 // COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A University of South Carolina student was shot and killed as he apparently tried to enter the wrong home on his off-campus street early on Saturday, police said.Nicholas Anthony Donofrio, 20,...
Aug 25 2023 // Convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh `s old college buddy has pleaded guilty to a second set of charges for helping the disgraced South Carolina attorney steal millions of dollars of insurance settlements from the sons of...
Aug 17 2023 // CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A longtime friend of disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh was sentenced Tuesday to nearly four years in prison for scheming to steal millions of dollars in insurance settlements...
Aug 7 2023 // A judge has ordered criminal charges dropped against the final executive accused of lying about problems building two nuclear reactors in South Carolina that were abandoned without generating a watt of power.The judge...