All the headlines from our South Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 18 2003 // The Assurant Group announced plans to build a $14 million office complex for its flood and hazard insurance tracking center in Florence, S.C. and to create about 560 new jobs over the next two years.The new service center...
Feb 10 2003 // South Carolina-based Seibels Bruce Group Inc. announced that the South Carolina Department of Insurance (SC DOI) has approved the company’s request to permit its subsidiary Catawba Insurance Company (CIC) to enter...
Feb 5 2003 // Key changes made by the South Carolina Supreme Court before adopting criteria for the sealing of court records and settlement agreements help balance the interests of confidentiality and disclosure, according to the...
Jan 27 2003 // Courts in South Carolina ordered nearly $168,000 in fines and restitution to be paid in 2002, the result of the 914 cases of insurance fraud that were reported to Office of the Attorney General’s Insurance Fraud...
Jan 24 2003 // The South Carolina Insurance News Service announced the appointment of Cheryl Watts as the new president of its board of directors. Watts is the southeast division underwriting manager for Liberty Mutual Insurance Company....
Jan 16 2003 // The South Carolina Department of Insurance announced that during the week of February 5, 2003, the department will mail to all licensed unlimited lines resident and nonresident South Carolina producers a notice for payment...
Jan 14 2003 // As of January 2003, Thomas H. Cooper & Co., a corporate benefits administration firm. was sold to BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina. Thomas H. Cooper & Co. will operate out of its Charleston office as an...
Dec 31 2002 // Governor-Elect Mark Sanford reappointed Ernst N. Csiszar as the South Carolina Director of Insurance. Csiszar was originally appointed as the Director of Insurance in 1999 under Governor Hodges’ Administration.Over...
Dec 31 2002 // The South Carolina Department of Insurance announced that Piedmont Insurance Company recently became the subject of an Order of Liquidation which declared the company insolvent and directed the South Carolina Department of...
Dec 16 2002 // Oklahoma Insurance Commis-sioner Carroll Fisher put it best when he recently said, “The best regulator of insurance rates is the consumer. For all the hard work state employees do to regulate insurance companies,...
Dec 6 2002 // Despite the lowest market share in over 20 years, automobile residual market mechanisms in several states continued to burden private insurers in 2000 as revealed in the latest edition of the Alliance of American...
Nov 22 2002 // Workers’ compensation rates in South Carolina would rise by an average of 20.3 percent if a rate hike request filed by the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) is approved by the South Carolina...
Nov 19 2002 // The South Carolina Captive Association Inc.’s (SCCIA) Third Annual Educational Conference was approved for 10 hours of continuing education (CE) credit by the South Carolina Department of Insurance. The SCCIA said...
Nov 18 2002 // The Seibels Bruce Group Inc. of Columbia, S.C. announced financial results for the quarter that ended September 30, 2002, reporting a net profit for the quarter of $1.8 million, or $0.21 per share (basic and diluted). This...
Oct 21 2002 // Florida’s Brown & Brown Inc. and C. Douglas Wilson Company Inc. announced Brown & Brown’s asset acquisition of C. Douglas Wilson Company, Life & Health Consultants Inc., and Burnett-Bates Agency...
Sep 30 2002 // Studies show that fewer South Carolina workers are dying on the job and safety training is being attributed to the decline.According to the South Carolina newspaper The State, the increased emphasis by businesses and...
Sep 16 2002 // The South Carolina Department of Insurance has invited interested parties to assist the department in drafting a bulletin to communicate multiple changes in a new producer licensing law scheduled to go into effect Jan. 31,...
Sep 12 2002 // South Carolina-based Seibels Bruce Group Inc. announced that its subsidiary, South Carolina Insurance Company (SCIC), voluntarily agreed with the California Department of Insurance (CADOI) to cease and desist from...
Aug 19 2002 // First Financial Holdings, Inc. has acquired South Carolina-based Johnson Insurance Associates Inc., an independent agency. Established in 1983, Johnson Insurance specializes in commercial business accounts. The...
Aug 13 2002 // South Carolina-based The Seibels Bruce Group Inc., posted a net profit of $1.0 million, or $0.11 per share (basic and diluted) in the second quarter This is compared with a net profit of $1.1 million, or $0.13 per share...