All the headlines from our South Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 9 2007 // South Carolina’s coastal tourism leaders urged Gov. Mark Sanford to make sure insurance is both available and affordable along the coast, the heart of the state’s $16 billion tourism industry.“It’s...
Feb 8 2007 // Kitzman resigns as Insurance Department director Eleanor Kitzman is resigning as director of the South Carolina Insurance Department after two years, according to a published report in The (Columbia) State.The newspaper...
Feb 8 2007 // South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has named Senator Scott Richardson of Hilton Head as the director of the Department of Insurance, pending Senate confirmation.Richardson, 55, was elected to the South Carolina Senate in...
Jan 8 2007 // The new year will force about a third of South Carolina’s drivers to dig deeper into their wallets to pay for auto insurance.A little-debated change in state law requires drivers to buy minimum liability coverage of...
Jan 7 2007 // 2007 MEETINGS DIRECTORY From South to North and beyond FLA. COMP MARKET GAPS Small firms, contractors left out
Jan 7 2007 // The new year will force about a third of South Carolina’s drivers to dig deeper into their wallets to pay for auto insurance.A little-debated change in state law requires drivers to buy minimum liability coverage of...
Jan 2 2007 // The new year will force about a third of South Carolina’s drivers to dig deeper into their wallets to pay for auto insurance.A little-debated change in state law requires drivers to buy minimum liability coverage of...
Dec 5 2006 // The Grand Strand housing market in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina is showing its first sign of price declines and one economist says increases in insurance costs are largely to blame.The median price of resale condos fell...
Dec 3 2006 // If a hurricane strikes or other disaster hits South Carolina, the Isle of Palms has assured its computer data will be safe and easily recovered, officials say.The barrier island is the first municipality in the state to...
Nov 22 2006 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. reports it has acquired Adams & Associates International, Ltd. of Columbia, South Carolina. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Adams & Associates International, Ltd. is a...
Nov 21 2006 // The former director of public affairs for Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance, Liz Reynolds, has joined the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies as state affairs manager for the southeast. Reynolds, will be...
Nov 6 2006 // A South Carolina legislator says he will file a bill before the end of the year to ban drivers under age 18 from using a cell phone while driving.Rep. Lanny Littlejohn says he wanted to extend the ban in his bill to all...
Oct 31 2006 // Several taxi companies that advertise their services on the Hilton Head, S.C. resort island are not licensed by the town.That means they don’t get their insurance isn’t verified, their cars don’t go...
Oct 31 2006 // Starting Jan. 1, drivers in South Carolina who buy the least amount of insurance coverage allowed by law will see their premiums go up as legislatively mandated changes in coverage take effect.Those drivers will begin...
Oct 27 2006 // A Columbia, S.C. company has been fined $3,000 after a worker fell to his death in Rock Hill.Two employees of Capitol City Erectors did not use a fall protection system while working on Winthrop University’s new...
Oct 27 2006 // Bars and restaurants in the city of Greenville and Beaufort County are a step closer to becoming smoke free.Council members in both governments gave initial approval Monday to proposed smoking bans in public places....
Oct 19 2006 // A South carolina lawmaker says he will file a bill before the end of the year than would ban drivers under age 18 from using a cell phone while driving.Rep. Lanny Littlejohn wanted to extend the ban in his bill to all...
Oct 16 2006 // A mistrial has been declared in South Carolina in the case of a former pastor accused of trying to burn down his own Summerville church.A Dorchester County jury deliberated Harold E. Hunter’s fate for nearly 10 hours...
Oct 13 2006 // Workers compensation loss costs may increase by 18.4 percent for businesses in South Carolina effective Dec. 1, 2006.Robert Herlong, vice president and regional manager for Property Casualty Insurers of America, said South...
Oct 13 2006 // A pastor accused of burning down his own church went on trial this week in South Carolina and could face 25 years in prison if convicted.Harold E. Hunter, 58, is charged in the burning of the Bethel AME Church in...