All the headlines from our South Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 22 2021 // Workers’ compensation insurance rates for the voluntary market will drop next year in South Carolina, but the loss cost multiplier for the assigned risk sector will climb again, thanks to another year of excessive...
Dec 15 2021 // A sheriff and a fired deputy in South Carolina are facing a second lawsuit over the officer’s conduct during an arrest.The lawsuit said ex-Kershaw County deputy Johnathan Goldsmith threw the man against a car and...
Nov 5 2021 // Risk Strategies, a national specialty broker, announced it is expanding into South Carolina with the purchase of Mount Pleasant-based Hibbits Insurance agency. Hibbits, with offices around the state, will become part of...
Nov 3 2021 // Orion 180, a homeowners’ insurtech company, has expanded into Georgia and will soon move into South Carolina, the company said this week. Orion, based in Melbourne, Florida, uses technology to allow homeowners to...
Nov 3 2021 // The South Carolina Department of Insurance is reminding people that it has taken over responsibility for investigating and prosecuting suspected cases of insurance fraud in the state.Until July, the cases were handled by...
Oct 27 2021 // For three years, undercover investigators watched as construction company owners in South Carolina met with a check-cashing company in parking lots, then walk away with bags of cash and fake insurance certificates, showing...
Oct 22 2021 // After adding 85 employees in the last three years, trucking insurer Canal Insurance will move to a new headquarters in downtown Greenville, South Carolina. The company, which specializes in commercial trucking and other...
Oct 6 2021 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”) installed Kansas’ Bob Fee, president of Fee Insurance Group Inc. in Hutchinson, as 2021-22 Big “I” chair at the recent...
Sep 30 2021 // A federal judge Tuesday suspended South Carolina from enforcing a rule that banned school districts from requiring masks for students.Parents of disabled children, helped by the American Civil Liberties Union, sued the...
Sep 29 2021 // Relation Insurance Services, Inc. (“Relation”) announced it acquired the assets of South Carolina-based The Furman Co. Insurance Agency (“Furman Insurance”). Terms of the transaction were not...
Sep 23 2021 // Relation Insurance Services, Inc. has acquired the assets of South Carolina-based Perry Insurance Group, Inc. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Perry provides personal and commercial lines insurance throughout...
Sep 20 2021 // Heavy equipment may soon begin tearing down an 80-year-old South Carolina public housing complex where two men died from carbon monoxide poisoning from a poorly maintained heater.Scientists are conducting environmental...
Sep 17 2021 // A prominent South Carolina lawyer who found the bodies of his wife and son three months ago plans to turn himself in to face charges in a plot to arrange his own death that ended with the shooter only grazing him in the...
Sep 3 2021 // South Carolina’s highest court said Wednesday that it won’t revisit a dispute between developers and environmentalists over a plan to build homes on a sand spit south of Charleston.The state Supreme Court is...
Sep 2 2021 // A business executive charged in the aftermath of a failed multibillion-dollar project to build two nuclear reactors in South Carolina pleaded not guilty in federal court Tuesday.Jeffrey A. Benjamin was a former senior vice...
Aug 31 2021 // South Carolina’s highest court will hear two challenges to the state’s refusal to let school districts require masks for students and teachers this week.The state Supreme Court has set aside two hours to hear...
Aug 20 2021 // A fourth business executive faces criminal charges stemming from a federal investigation into a failed multibillion-dollar project to build two nuclear reactors in South Carolina, authorities announced Wednesday.Jeffrey A....
Aug 19 2021 // The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled that a mask mandate instituted by the University of South Carolina last month does not violate a state budget proviso banning discriminatory face covering requirements.University...
Aug 17 2021 // A South Carolina paper mill, whose foul smell has triggered more than 30,000 complaints, has become one of the dirtiest polluters in the United States since being acquired by an investment group led by Robert Kraft, the...
Aug 16 2021 // Anyone with a permit to carry a concealed weapon in South Carolina will no longer have to keep their weapon hidden under clothing starting Sunday.Gov. Henry McMaster held a ceremonial signing Friday for a new state law...