All the headlines from our South Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 21 2005 // Progressive Insurance’s Drive Group (Drive Insurance) will offer its commercial auto product in South Carolina through more than 430 agents. Drive(SM) Insurance is The Progressive Group of Insurance Companies’...
Mar 14 2005 // A one-time infusion of $400,000 to permit the South Carolina Attorney General’s Office to hire six new prosecutors to fight insurance fraud has been approved by the Senate Finance Subcommittee to aid in the fight...
Mar 7 2005 // Progressive Insurance’s Drive Group (Drive Insurance) has announced it will offer its commercial auto product in South Carolina through more than 430 agents. Drive(SM) Insurance is The Progressive Group of Insurance...
Mar 7 2005 // The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the federal government agency responsible for administration of the Medicare program, has awarded Palmetto GBA, a subsidiary of BlueCross BlueShield of South...
Feb 21 2005 // South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has chosen Eleanor Kitzman, founder and past president of Driver’s Choice Insurance Services of Columbia, to head South Carolina’s Insurance Department. Kitzman has been active...
Feb 7 2005 // The South Carolina Supreme Court on Jan. 11 issued its decision in Progressive Casualty Ins. V. Leachman, holding that Progressive’s UIM selection form constituted a “meaningful offer,” and that in making...
Feb 3 2005 // South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has chosen Elanor Kitzman, founder and past president of Driver’s Choice Insurance Services, of Columbia to head South Carolina’s Insurance Department.Kitzman has been active in...
Feb 3 2005 // The State Farm Insurance Bank is embroiled in a turf war which pits North Carolina regulators and the federal Office of Thrift Supervision to determine who has jurisdiction over State Farm’s sale of $100,000-plus...
Jan 28 2005 // Attorney General Henry McMaster announced today in Columbia, S.C. that nine individuals pleaded guilty between Oct. 21, 2004 and Jan. 13, 2005 to 16 counts of Presenting False Claims for Payment, a felony violation of...
Jan 25 2005 // South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford is carefully screening candidates, looking for someone with a strong insurance background to head the South Carolina Insurance Department.After former Insurance Commissioner Ernie...
Jan 24 2005 // Additional emergency medical and travel services have been offered by BlueCross BlueShield of Columbia, S.C., and Companion HealthCare to members with the company’s international BlueCard® coverage. These extra...
Jan 24 2005 // A class-action lawsuit filed in North Carolina’s Guilford Superior Court claims that Hix Insurance of Greensboro, S.C., misled thousands of North Carolina customers, especially Latinos, into unknowingly buying motor...
Jan 24 2005 // American Mutual Fire Insurance Co. has closed its offices in Charleston due to efforts by its British parent, Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance to reduce losses in the United States. At one time American Mutual had 500...
Jan 18 2005 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America is supporting HB 3284, legislation which would repeal South Carolina’s Second Injury Fund, which, due to excessive costs, has become a hindrance to much needed...
Jan 13 2005 // The South Carolina Supreme Court on Jan. 11 issued its decision in the case of Progressive Casualty Ins. V. Leachman, holding that Progressive’s UIM selection form constituted a “meaningful offer,” and...
Jan 6 2005 // Additional emergency medical and travel services have been offered by BlueCross BlueShield of Columbia, S.C. and Companion HealthCare members holding the company’s international BlueCard® coverage.These extra...
Jan 4 2005 // South Carolinians who drive without car insurance now risk losing their licenses. Rep. Bob Walker (R-Landrum) says the state’s old laws lacked proper enforcement tools. He said the possibility of losing a...
Jan 3 2005 // Carriers Eyed as Income SourceSouth Carolina legislators want to make insurance carriers pay for more investigators and prosecutors to fight insurance fraud under a proposal suggested by Rep. Daniel L. Tripp, R-Greenville....
Jan 1 2005 // The Charleston, S.C. office of American Mutual Fire Insurance Co. has closed its offices here due to efforts of its British parent, Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance to reduce losses in the United States. During its...
Dec 17 2004 // South Carolina legislators want insurance carriers to foot the bill to add investigators and prosecutors to the South Carolina Attorney General’s Office to fight insurance fraud. A bill suggested by Rep. Daniel L....