All the headlines from our South Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 7 2014 // Sitting in Judge Alesia Rico Flores or Judge Michael Molony’s courtroom in Charleston or Judge Debra Jackson’s in Florence, defendants and onlookers realize that while these municipal courts uphold the rule of...
Feb 3 2014 // Program Brokerage Corp. (PBC), a wholesale subsidiary of insurance broker Hub International Limited (Hub), sad it has acquired the assets of Sirles Insurance Group Inc., a South Carolina-based commercial insurance...
Jan 27 2014 // Starr Companies said it has appointed Eleanor Kitzman as vice president of Starr Insurance Holdings Inc. Kitzman will have regulatory, management and operational responsibilities across the company’s domestic and...
Jan 21 2014 // A Spartanburg, South Carolina neighborhood is suing a chemical plant, saying pollution has caused dozens of cancer cases.The lawsuit filed last week in federal court accuses a Hoechst Celanese polyester manufacturing plant...
Dec 31 2013 // A laptop stolen from an auditor’s car contained the personal information of more than 3,400 members of the South Carolina Health Insurance Pool, an attorney hired by the pool told The Associated Press on Monday.The...
Dec 16 2013 // A Clarendon County jury has awarded $890,000 in damages to a man after members of the governing board at his condominium wrongly identified him as a registered sex offender.James E. King thinks the situation stemmed from a...
Dec 11 2013 // A federal judge has ruled against a former police officer who argued in a lawsuit that Greenville officials violated her free speech rights by firing her over comments posted on a social networking site.Former Sgt. Susan...
Dec 9 2013 // Starr Companies said it has appointed Eleanor Kitzman as vice president of Starr Insurance Holdings Inc. Kitzman will have regulatory, management and operational responsibilities across the company’s domestic and...
Dec 6 2013 // After four years in Washington as the nation’s products safety czar, Inez Tenenbaum is coming home to the Columbia area, her life changed in ways large and small.“Now I’m always giving advice unsolicited...
Dec 5 2013 // Greenville, South Carolina is considering a ban on any use of a cellphone in a driver’s hand. The city has created a task force to look at driving safety. Mayor Pro Tem David Sudduth said Monday they determined just...
Dec 2 2013 // The insurance industry hopes a 21,000-square-foot lab in rural South Carolina can help revolutionize the way homes are built and stem the cost of Mother Nature’s disasters.Officials at the Insurance Institute for...
Oct 24 2013 // Florence is taking steps to deal with abandoned and run-down buildings and revitalize neighborhoods by starting a city livability court.The Morning News reported that the court approved by the City Council last week will...
Oct 18 2013 // A bill proposed by two state senators would increase fines and jail time for driving violations in construction zones in South Carolina.“It’s common sense to take these extra steps for safety,” Sen. Paul...
Sep 25 2013 // Federal officials announced they are going to be doing more oversight at a South Carolina nuclear power plant that has tallied a number of incidents in recent years.The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is going to keep a...
Sep 23 2013 // Katrina Frye Shealy was the only woman in her insurance agency for years.It turns out that that was useful experience for her political career. Today Shealy is the sole woman in the South Carolina Senate. “It’s...
Sep 11 2013 // Katrina Frye Shealy was the only woman in her insurance agency for years.It turns out that that was useful experience for her political career. Today Shealy is the sole woman in the South Carolina Senate. “It’s...
Sep 9 2013 // The federal Affordable Care Act will not lead to widespread premium increases in the individual health insurance market. That’s according to a new analysis of 10 states and the United States overall by RAND Corp.,...
Aug 22 2013 // South Carolina’s high court has found that a general contractor cannot sue a subcontractor for faulty workmanship in instances where the subcontractor is in essence doing work on the contractor’s behalf.The...
Aug 20 2013 // Electronics manufacturer AVX Corp. is appealing a $750,000 verdict in a pollution lawsuit.A state jury awarded the damages earlier this month to a Myrtle Beach developer who sued AVX saying groundwater pollution by the...
Aug 7 2013 // As hurricane season approaches its peak, researchers at South Carolina’s Coastal Carolina University unveiled a new hurricane model program named after a massive Category 4 storm that smashed into South Carolina a...