All the headlines from our South Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 21 2020 // With hurricane season less than two months away, officials in South Carolina said they don’t yet have a good plan in place if a storm hits during the coronavirus outbreak, particularly for people potentially...
Apr 20 2020 // The South Carolina Department of Insurance will be implementing a variety of organizational changes that will become effective May 1, 2020. These changes include: Joe Cregan has been named chief deputy of Insurance...
Apr 17 2020 // More than 900 homes were damaged and 111 houses were destroyed by a series of tornadoes and strong winds that moved across the state Monday, emergency officials said.Damage from the storms were reported in 21 counties, the...
Apr 17 2020 // Family members of a South Carolina boat crash victim are suing two restaurants accused of serving too much alcohol to the man charged with causing the crash.The lawsuits filed Tuesday allege that the restaurants on Lake...
Apr 16 2020 // South Carolina continued to clean up Tuesday from the state’s deadliest tornado outbreak in 36 years.Nine people were killed as a series of twisters moved from one end of the state to the other Monday morning....
Apr 14 2020 // Severe weather swept across the South Monday, killing at least 19 people and damaging hundreds of homes from Louisiana into the Appalachian Mountains. Many people spent part of the night early Monday sheltering in...
Apr 7 2020 // Insurance Office of America (IOA) has added Travis Duke to its team in South Carolina. Duke joins IOA as a risk management specialist with a focus on liability, property, and workers compensation as well as risk...
Mar 30 2020 // Employees at a South Carolina nuclear plant failed to check for fires when making rounds and then falsified log books, federal officials said. The violations of policy happened in 2017 at Duke Energy’s Robinson...
Mar 20 2020 // Insurance departments across the Southeast are notifying industry representatives of updated procedures and expectations in response to the coronavirus outbreak, while also acknowledging the potential for a serious impact...
Mar 20 2020 // A student accused of setting an off-campus fire is the only suspect in about 20 fires set on the campus of the University of South Carolina Upstate, police said.Brandon Michael Burt, 19, of Suwanee, Georgia, was booked...
Mar 11 2020 // Jackson Sumner & Associates (JSA) has promoted Brantley Saunders to director of Marketing for the company.Saunders is a South Carolina native with more than 10 years of experience in the insurance industry in various...
Mar 9 2020 // Some South Carolina residents deliberately caused hit-and-run accidents while in Uber rides as part of an insurance scam, a car insurance company says in a lawsuit.The lawsuit from James River Insurance says 52 people were...
Mar 2 2020 // Jennifer Mykytyn has been fighting to honor her son for five years and finally got a hearing to ask South Carolina lawmakers to require inspections for balconies so no one else would die the way her son was...
Feb 24 2020 // Some South Carolina residents deliberately caused hit-and-run accidents while in Uber rides as part of an insurance scam, a car insurance company says in a lawsuit.The lawsuit from James River Insurance says 52 people were...
Feb 20 2020 // Farmers Insurance has launched its first auto insurance product in South Carolina, delivered exclusively through a new digital and customizable auto insurance policy available on Farmersdirect.com.The digital auto...
Feb 14 2020 // The Auto Club Group (ACG) and AAA Carolinas have merged and combined operations, it was announced last month.With North and South Carolina part of The Auto Club Group family, the company now serves more than 13.5 million...
Feb 13 2020 // North Carolina-based Towne Insurance has expanded into South Carolina with the completion of its acquisition of Nationwide Agency, The Angel Insurance Agency.Led by David E. Angel, The Angel Insurance Agency has offices...
Feb 6 2020 // The South Carolina House is considering a bill that would create a relief fund for farmers that could be used before federal aid is granted or if help from the U.S. government never comes.The House Agriculture Committee...
Feb 3 2020 // It appears that bill in South Carolina requiring anyone using a cellphone while driving to not hold the phone in their hands will not pass this year.The Senate Transportation Committee decided Wednesday to not vote on the...
Jan 27 2020 // The owner of an island home off South Carolina’s coast is suing Airbnb, claiming it only reimbursed him for a “fraction” of the damages that a guest who threw a big party did to his home.In a federal...