All the headlines from our South Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 18 2007 // S.C. reforms workers’ comp fraud, injury reporting lawsLegislation gets tougher with cheaters and closes state’s Second Injury Fund Employers who lie about what their workers do to save money on workers’...
Jun 18 2007 // The South Carolina House of Representatives and Senate recently agreed to changes to coastal omnibus hurricane legislation, which include extending the notice for homeowners whose insurance would be canceled to 90 days...
Jun 15 2007 // South Carolina joined Maine, New Hampshire and other states this week as it formally rejected a federal mandate that sets new national driver’s license standards.Gov. Mark Sanford signed a bill into law that says the...
Jun 15 2007 // Lancashire Insurance Co. Ltd. gained approval to provide insurance coverage on an excess and surplus basis for properties located in South Carolina.Lancashire intends to focus primarily on coastal windstorm and earthquake...
Jun 13 2007 // Gov. Mark Sanford signed a bill into law Monday that he says should lower insurance costs for residents along South Carolina’s coast.Sanford’s signature comes three months after the Republican governor and his...
Jun 12 2007 // Employers who lie about what their workers do to save money on insurance premiums would face fines and prison time under an agreement South Carolina legislators reached to overhaul the state’s workers’...
Jun 11 2007 // Gov. Mark Sanford called this year’s legislative session a success for South Carolinians even though only a few key proposals debated during the past five months will become law this year.Sanford praised bills...
Jun 8 2007 // On Wednesday the South Carolina House of Representatives agreed to Senate changes to coastal omnibus hurricane legislation, which included extending the notice for homeowners whose insurance would be canceled to 90 days...
Jun 7 2007 // The South Carolina House has concurred with the Senate on the so-called coastal property omnibus bill and forwarded it to the governor who is expected to sign the legislation.HB 3820 includes a limited expansion of the...
Jun 6 2007 // The former owner and president of an insurance company has been sentenced to three and a half years in federal prison after he was convicted on forgery charges.Jay Morris Specter, 51, of Columbia, S.C., was convicted in...
Jun 6 2007 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America commends Gov. Mark Sanford and the South Carolina Legislature for advancing an agenda of reform aimed at strengthening the state’s coastal insurance market.Today...
Jun 4 2007 // Insureds would receive premium discounts for storm mitigation efforts and be able to establish tax-free personal catastrophe savings accounts while insurers would receive tax breaks for writing coastal properties under...
Jun 4 2007 // Insureds would receive premium discounts for storm mitigation efforts and be able to establish tax-free personal catastrophe savings accounts while insurers would receive tax breaks for writing coastal properties under...
Jun 1 2007 // The South Carolina Senate has approved omnibus legislation that backers hope will ease the insurance cost and availability crunch facing coastal property owners in the state by providing discounts and tax breaks.The...
May 31 2007 // Home inspectors are rushing to check roofs in South Carolina’s Sun City Hilton Head development before the heart of hurricane season to see if trusses were properly built and can handle high winds.Beaufort County is...
May 29 2007 // South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford repeated calls last week for state and local officials, not the federal government, to retain control during hurricane response efforts.The Republican governor said the lack of preparation...
May 29 2007 // A minor earthquake shook parts of South Carolina’s Richland Count on last Thursday, emergency management officials said.Earthquake sensors in South Carolina pegged the quake at a magnitude 2.4, according to the U.S....
May 25 2007 // Two people on board a tug boat towing a barge that severely damaged a Beaufort County, S.C. bridge last month have been charged with misconduct and negligence, the Coast Guard said.State transportation officials have said...
May 25 2007 // South Carolina has again expanded the territory covered by the state’s wind pool to the intracoastal waterway and additonal areas within Charleston, Georgetown and Horry counties.“This expansion supplements the...
May 18 2007 // For the second year in a row, Gov. Mark Sanford has vetoed a bill that supporters say would prevent S.C. children from getting injured while riding all-terrain vehicles.Sanford said he vetoed the bill in part because it...