All the headlines from our South Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 8 2007 // Business cheers as S.C. orders objective workers’ comp standardsSouth Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford was joined by business groups from across his state when he signed an executive order last month ordering that the...
Oct 8 2007 // The South Carolina Department of Insurance recently disapproved a request made by the National Council on Compensation Insurance to increase loss costs statewide by 23.7 percent.NCCI State Relations Executive, Amy Quinn,...
Oct 5 2007 // A pre-established formulaic predictability model would virtually solve the issue of indeterminable loss cause that was so wide-spread in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, according to South Carolina’s Insurance...
Oct 3 2007 // Insurance brokerage and consulting firm Rosenfeld Einstein based in Greenville, S.C., opened a Charlotte, N.C. service office and hired Kathleen H. Thomas to manage the branch and to serve as Employee Benefits...
Sep 24 2007 // Add the director of the South Carolina Department of Insurance to the thousands of coastal homeowners who have lost property insurance since Hurricane Katrina.Scott Richardson, who lives on Hilton Head Island, has been...
Sep 24 2007 // Add the director of the South Carolina Department of Insurance to the thousands of coastal homeowners who have lost property insurance since Hurricane Katrina.Scott Richardson, who lives on Hilton Head Island, has been...
Sep 24 2007 // An investigator from the U.S. Department of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms climbs through the remains of the Sofa Super Store in Charleston, S.C. while investigating the cause of the June 18 fire that took the lives of nine...
Sep 24 2007 // South Carolina safety regulators fined the Charleston Fire Department and a furniture store last week for violating safety standards in a blaze that killed nine firefighters.The report and citations by the state...
Sep 20 2007 // The South Carolina Department of Insurance disapproved a request made by the National Council on Compensation Insurance to increase loss costs statewide by 23.7 percent.NCCI State Relations Executive, Amy Quinn, said SCDOI...
Sep 20 2007 // Gov. Mark Sanford today was joined by business groups from across South Carolina when he signed an executive order mandating that the Workers’ Compensation Commission apply objective standards when making...
Sep 14 2007 // South Carolina kicked off a new advertising campaign asking residents to be prepared in case a hurricane or other disaster strikes.The state plans to run ads for its “Be Ready! South Carolina” program on TV and...
Sep 6 2007 // The owner of a Charleston, S.C. furniture store where nine firefighters died said he wished he had put sprinklers in the building.But Herb Goldstein said they were expensive and not required when he build the massive Sofa...
Sep 6 2007 // Add the director of the South Carolina Department of Insurance to the thousands of coastal homeowners who have lost property insurance since Hurricane Katrina.Scott Richardson, who lives on Hilton Head Island, was notified...
Sep 3 2007 // A South Carolina Senate leader has asked the Legislative Audit Council to review practices at the state insurance department that may have let insurance companies raise rates without adequate oversight. Senate President...
Aug 30 2007 // The families of nine firefighters killed in a furniture store fire are set to receive $700,000 each in donations and workers’ compensation payments.Relatives could also receive a federal death benefit that could put...
Aug 29 2007 // South Carolina’s beaches overall are well prepared to withstand the winds and waves of this year’s hurricane season, but there are a few spots along the coast to worry about, a state official...
Aug 16 2007 // A South Carolina Senate leader is asking the Legislative Audit Council to review practices at the state Insurance Department that may have let insurance companies raise rates without adequate oversight. Senate President...
Aug 8 2007 // Two men were detained after police found a suspicious item in their car during a routine traffic stop for speeding near Charleston, S.C., authorities said Sunday.Berkeley County sheriff’s Lt. Vince Lombard said the...
Aug 6 2007 // Rates for the South Carolina Wind and Hail Underwriting Association went up an overall 35 percent beginning July 19 under an approval from Scott H. Richardson, director of the South Carolina Department of Insurance.In...
Aug 6 2007 // Rates for the South Carolina Wind and Hail Underwriting Association went up an overall 35 percent beginning July 19 under an approval from Scott H. Richardson, director of the South Carolina Department of Insurance.In...