Latest South Carolina Headlines

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PURE Insurance Expands Southeast Regional Hub in South Carolina

Aug 25 2015 // Privilege Underwriters Reciprocal Exchange (PURE), the policyholder-owned property and casualty insurer of high net worth individuals and families, has expanded its southeast regional hub in Charleston, S.C. To accommodate...

South Carolina Approves Rate Changes to State Workers’ Comp Plan

Aug 17 2015 // South Carolina Insurance Director Raymond Farmer approved an overall revision of +1.9 percent to the state’s voluntary workers’ compensation policy loss costs and a decrease of .3 percent in the assigned risk...

Marsh Acquires South Carolina-Based Technology Provider Dovetail Insurance

Aug 10 2015 // Marsh has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Dovetail Insurance, a provider of insurance technology services tailored to the U.S. small commercial market. Terms of the transaction, which is expected to close in the...

Regions Insurance Acquires Georgia-Based The A.I. Group

Aug 5 2015 // Regions Insurance, Inc., a subsidiary of Regions Insurance Group, Inc. and an affiliate of Regions Bank, has acquired The A.I. Group, Inc., with offices in Greater Atlanta and Athens, Georgia.The A.I. Group provides...

South Carolina Man Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Insurance Fraud

Aug 3 2015 // South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced a Horry County jury has found a Conway man guilty of insurance fraud. Judson Stanley was convicted of one count of Presenting a False Claim for Insurance Payment over...

Fewer Deer Equals Fewer Collisions Caused by Deer in South Carolina

Jul 29 2015 // Records show that collisions between vehicles and deer in South Carolina are declining. The State in Columbia reports that a review by South Carolina public safety officials shows that vehicles and deer collided more than...

South Carolina Requests Federal Evaluation on Day Care E.Coli Outbreak Response

Jul 28 2015 // South Carolina’s public health department has asked federal officials to evaluate both the agency’s response to an E. coli outbreak that killed one child at a Greenwood day care facility and its infectious...

South Carolina Health System Settles Infection Lawsuit for $600K

Jul 22 2015 // South Carolina’s Greenville Health System has settled a wrongful death lawsuit with the family of a surgical patient who died after contracting an infection.The Greenville News reported that court documents show the...

Entire State of South Carolina Now Facing Some Level of Drought

Jul 21 2015 // Modest rain and high temperatures this summer have pushed South Carolina into a drought.The South Carolina Drought Response Committee met last week and upgraded the drought status for the entire state. A release from the...

J.M. Wilson Adds Transportation Underwriter to South Carolina Office

Jul 21 2015 // Kayley Dana J.M. Wilson has added Kayley Dana to their Charleston, S.C., office as transportation underwriter. Dana is responsible for quoting new and renewal transportation risks, and serving independent insurance agents...

Report: South Carolina Disabled Residents Overcharged for Care by $2M

Jul 20 2015 // Hundreds of South Carolina people with disabilities have been overcharged roughly $2 million for their care in group homes, according to a report released July 16.An audit revealed that 10 providers for the Department of...

South Carolina Supreme Court Affirms Reduced Penalty in Drug Marketing Case

Jul 20 2015 // South Carolina’s highest court further reduced the penalty against a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary accused of deceptive marketing of an anti-psychotic drug. The decision was to substitute the verdict the court...

South Carolina High Court Further Reduces Penalty on Janssen Pharmaceuticals

Jul 13 2015 // South Carolina’s highest court further reduced the penalty against a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary accused of deceptive marketing of an anti-psychotic drug.The decision was to substitute the same verdict the court...

Officials Discover Heavy Equipment Theft Ring in 6 South Carolina Counties

Jul 6 2015 // One man has been jailed and another is being sought as county officials in Florence and Clarendon, South Carolina say they’ve discovered a heavy equipment theft ring that operated in six counties. The Morning News of...

Bill Allowing Uber to Stay in South Carolina Is Officially Law

Jul 6 2015 // Uber is staying in South Carolina. After the transportation network company (TNC) was halted by the state’s Public Service Commission in January and then granted a temporary license through June 30, South Carolina...

Drought Conditions Affecting 28 South Carolina Counties

Jul 6 2015 // Twenty-eight South Carolina counties are now in the first level of drought.The S.C. Drought Response Committee said June 19 that the counties are in the incipient level of drought. Places such as Florence, Manning and...

Bill Allowing Uber to Stay in South Carolina is Officially Law

Jul 2 2015 // Uber is staying in South Carolina. After the transportation network company (TNC) was halted by the state’s Public Service Commission in January and then granted a temporary license through June 30, South Carolina...

Drought Conditions Affecting 28 South Carolina Counties

Jun 22 2015 // Twenty-eight South Carolina counties are now in the first level of drought.The S.C. Drought Response Committee said June 19 that the counties are in the incipient level of drought. Places such as Florence, Manning and...

3 More Test Positive for E. Coli from South Carolina Daycare Outbreak

Jun 15 2015 // Health officials say testing has found three more cases of E. coli from an outbreak at a Greenwood day care center that has now sickened 11 and killed a 2-year-old boy.The South Carolina Department of Health and...

South Carolina Jumps Aboard Workers’ Compensation Alternative Bandwagon

Jun 15 2015 // A South Carolina lawmaker has introduced workers’ compensation option legislation that would allow qualified businesses in the state to offer their own injury benefit plan to employees. The state is the second one...