All the headlines from our South Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 7 2011 // South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley wants David Black, a former executive with Liberty Life Insurance Co., to be the state’s next insurance commissioner.Black served as president and CEO of Liberty Life Insurance Co....
Feb 7 2011 // The South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled that insurers are not liable for damages caused by faulty workmanship under a contractor’s commercial general liability policy.The high court found that a builder’s...
Feb 3 2011 // Ernest N. Csiszar, former South Carolina insurance commissioner and head of a national insurers organization, has been named to the board of directors of Patriot National Insurance Group and Guarantee Insurance Co.Csiszar...
Jan 24 2011 // The South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled that insurers are not liable for damages caused by faulty workmanship under a contractor’s commercial general liability policy.In a recent ruling, the high court found that...
Jan 20 2011 // South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley wants David Black, a former executive with Liberty Life Insurance Co., to be the state’s next insurance commissioner.Black served as president and CEO of Liberty Life Insurance Co....
Jan 10 2011 // South Carolina Gov.-elect Nikki Haley announced she will nominate the state’s former insurance director to lead the agency that oversees much of state government operations.Haley said she will nominate Eleanor...
Jan 4 2011 // Eighty-five South Carolina homeowners who live on the coast are the latest recipients of grants to help them strengthen their homes against storms.Scott H. Richardson, state insurance commissioner, said the SC Safe Home...
Dec 31 2010 // South Carolina authorities say winter weather contributed to twice as many deaths on the state’s roadways over Christmas weekend this year.Multiple media outlets report that 13 people were killed on state roads and...
Dec 29 2010 // Thomas Layden and Abigail Engles have joined Triest Insurance Agency in Charleston. Layden has 10 years of experience having most recently worked for another large insurance agency near Charleston. He will be responsible...
Dec 23 2010 // The top insurance stories in the Southeast in 2010 included several disasters that caused considerable death and destruction in the region and one that didn’t do as much harm as feared.The April 20 blowout of...
Dec 16 2010 // Commercial trucking insurer Canal Insurance Co. in Greenville, S.C. announced that Timothy J. Hogan has joined the company as chief administrative officer. With more than 25 years of management experience, Hogan has held...
Dec 14 2010 // The South Carolina economy improved in 2010 and will continue to recover in 2011 with better job growth.But the improvement next year will happen slowly. Job growth is expected to increase to 1.2 percent in 2011 from 0.1...
Dec 5 2010 // The South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Commission broke state law by not depositing fines because it worried legislators would use the money for something else, according to a state audit.The commission collected...
Nov 29 2010 // The state’s Workers’ Compensation Commission broke state law by not depositing fines as it worried legislators would use the money for something else, according to a state audit.The commission collected but...
Nov 15 2010 // Two parents are suing the Beaufort County School District for negligence after their son broke both arms on a school playground.Patricia and Ben Stott told The Beaufort Gazette that the Bluffton Elementary School...
Nov 14 2010 // A new federal job safety study finds North and South Carolina among the country’s safest states in which to work. But some experts doubt whether the rates accurately reflect which states are safer.North...
Nov 8 2010 // A new federal study estimating the rate of workplace injuries last year finds North and South Carolina among the country’s safest in which to work.But some workplace safety experts doubt whether the rates accurately...
Nov 1 2010 // Aubie W. Knight has assumed the role of chief executive officer of the Independent Insurance Agents of Georgia (IIAG).Knight has been with IIAG since 1996. During his tenure, he has been responsible for most of...
Oct 29 2010 // If modern model building codes and sprinkler requirements had been enforced, the fire that took the lives of 9 firefighters and gutted the Sofa Super Store in Charleston, South Carolina in 2007 could have been prevented, a...
Oct 18 2010 // Workplace safety programs in North and South Carolina downplay serious safety problems and levy weak fines, according to an audit released by the U.S. Labor Department.Jordan Barab of the Occupational Safety and Health...