All the headlines from our South Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 23 2015 // South Carolina taxpayers are spending millions of dollars a year addressing alleged misdeeds by law officers or detention officials including excessive force and civil rights violations. The Greenville News reports the...
Sep 18 2015 // Three-quarters of South Carolina’s counties have been designated primary natural disaster areas because of persistent drought. The U.S. Department of Agriculture this month says 35 of the state’s 46 counties...
Sep 17 2015 // Authorities say distracted driving is to blame for a jump in wrecks involving stopped vehicles on Interstate 85 in South Carolina. The Office of Highway Safety and Justice Programs told the Greenville News that 408...
Sep 1 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...
Aug 26 2015 // With the summer travel season winding down and with traffic deaths up across the state, South Carolina law enforcement agencies are gearing up their efforts to keep drunk drivers off the road.The Department of Public...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...