All the headlines from our South Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 21 2008 // A South Carolina company being sued by neighbors for polluting groundwater around its plant in Myrtle Beach is asking a court to force those neighbors to help pay for testing and cleanup of contamination.AVX Corp. says in...
Jan 14 2008 // The owners of a Charleston furniture store that burned down and killed nine firefighters agreed to pay $13,110 in fines but they admitted no wrongdoing, state regulators announced last week.The Sofa Super Store was...
Jan 7 2008 // A South Carolina company that made contaminated pet food that killed dozens of dogs nationwide will pay $3.1 million in a settlement with pet owners, an attorney said last week.The pet food, which contained a mold called...
Jan 4 2008 // A fast-moving fire destroyed the sanctuary of a Spartanburg County, S.C. church, bringing down its steeple.The employees and construction crew inside escaped without injury when the Abner Creek Baptist Church caught fire...
Jan 3 2008 // CarInsurance.com, which sells auto insurance over the Internet, has added more carriers to its current 28 state agency product offering.In November and December 2007, the firm expanded and now offers Encompass Insurance...
Dec 31 2007 // High heat, changing winds put reputations on the line.1. Florida’s gamble “It’s all about rates,” maintained Sam Miller, of the industry’s Florida Insurance Council. Florida lawmakers in...
Dec 23 2007 // In June, fire swept through a Sofa Super Store furniture warehouse in Charleston, S.C., collapsing the building’s roof and claiming the lives of nine firefighters in the nation’s single worst loss of...
Dec 19 2007 // S.C. Department of Insurance Director Scott Richardson has proposed a Bulletin establishing clear standards for captive management companies in South Carolina including specific requirements for character, reputation,...
Dec 11 2007 // An e-mail sent by a South Carolina workplace safety official details the agency’s public relations plan to downplay the release of an investigation into a furniture store fire that killed nine firefighters, according...
Dec 11 2007 // The South Carolina Forestry Commission has lifted a red flag fire alert that recommended no burning outside. The alert was posted about a week ago because of brisk winds and low humidity, ripe conditions for wildfires....
Dec 7 2007 // Upstate South Carolina-based insurance agent/brokerage and consulting firm, Rosenfeld Einstein, recently added Neal Ashley as controller. Ashley is a practicing certified public accountant and holds both B.A. and...
Nov 26 2007 // State officials say a tipster called the South Carolina Arson Hotline and helped authorities solve 12 Columbia-area cases.The help garnered a record reward for the anonymous tipster. The South Carolina Insurance News...
Nov 16 2007 // The South Carolina Department of Insurance placed Capital Assurance Risk Retention Group (CARRG) in receivership for the purposes of rehabilitation.On Oct. 31, the Richland County Court of Common Pleas issued an order...
Nov 7 2007 // Insurance brokerage and consulting firm Rosenfeld Einstein is ranked third on South Carolina’s 20 Best Places to Work list, compiled by SC BIZ magazine and Best Companies Group of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The Best...
Nov 4 2007 // Natural catastrophes — and the affordability and availability of property insurance in disaster-prone areas — have been on center stage in coastal states from the Northeast to the Gulf Coast. This fall, the...
Oct 29 2007 // The South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Commission unanimously rejected Gov. Mark Sanford’s order to begin using uniform medical standards in deciding how much should be paid to injured workers with long-term...
Oct 29 2007 // Fourteen South Carolina homeowners received grants of up to $5,000 each to help strengthen their homes against the high winds associated with hurricanes and other natural disasters.The S.C. Safe Home Grant Program was...
Oct 27 2007 // While Congress continues to debate whether to launch any sort of national disaster backup plan or add wind coverage to the federal flood program, states are coming up with some of their own ideas — big and small...
Oct 27 2007 // hurricane damage formulaLooking to minimize claims litigation 8 West Virginia lawmakers may reassert workers’ comp oversightBut will they scare insurers from the state?9 Florida brings back no-faultLawmakers add...
Oct 27 2007 // News CurrentsSouth Carolina Insurance Director Scott Richardson is proposing a loss-allocation method that he hopes will alleviate any confusion between water damage and wind damage the next time a hurricane reduces...