Latest South Carolina Headlines
All the headlines from our South Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
South Carolina DOI Names Noga, Formerly With GuideOne, as Captives Director
Apr 4 2025 // The South Carolina Department of Insurance named Andy Noga, formerly CEO and general counsel of GuideOne Insurance Group, as director of captives, underscoring the state’s commitment to fostering captive insurance...
SC Bill Moves to House, Would Lower Liquor Liability Coverage, End Joint-and-Several
Apr 1 2025 // The fate of a bill that would modify South Carolina’s joint-and-several liability law now rests with the state House of Representatives after the state Senate last week approved the measure following weeks of heated...
Man Torches Tesla Chargers in South Carolina But Catches His Clothes on Fire
Mar 13 2025 // NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A man burned three Tesla chargers in a South Carolina parking lot and also apparently inadvertently set his clothes on fire, police said. The man spray-painted “long live the...
SC House Approves Liquor Liability Bill But Broader Tort Reform May Be Dead
Mar 7 2025 // The South Carolina House of Representatives voted 109-0 Thursday in favor of a bill that would end joint-and-several liability for bars and restaurants and would incentivize additional alcohol-server training, an effort to...
Engineers Assessing Risk After Condo in Charleston, SC, Ordered Evacuated
Mar 6 2025 // Multiple condominium buildings in Florida have been evacuated since the deadly 2021 collapse in Surfside. Now, residents of a Charleston, South Carolina, structure have been forced out, with city officials citing...
Crews Battle Wildfires Across Parts of North and South Carolina
Mar 4 2025 // South Carolina’s governor declared a state of emergency this week as dozens of wildfires burned across parts of North and South Carolina, causing evacuations, minor property losses and unhealthy air quality. State,...
South Carolina Republicans Launch TV Ads to Salvage Tort Reform Bill
Feb 25 2025 // Georgia lawmakers aren’t the only ones contemplating a major tort-reform bill during the legislative session this year. Next door, South Carolina’s General Assembly is considering Senate Bill 244, which...
Not a Bear But a Fake Deer-Collision Claim Results in South Carolina Fraud Charges
Jan 28 2025 // First it was the fake bear insurance fraud that made headlines around the country. Now, it’s a fake deer that has landed a South Carolina woman in jail after authorities said she provided false information to a...
Seibels Bruce, One of the South’s Oldest Insurance Companies, Closes its Doors
Jan 17 2025 // Two decades after its subsidiaries were deemed insolvent and 155 years after it was founded, one of the oldest insurance companies in the South has officially gone out of business. Seibels Bruce & Company’s...
‘Epidemic’ of Hidden Cams? SC Workers’ Comp Lawyer Sued After Arrest for Videos
Jan 15 2025 // Two months after his law license was suspended and he was charged with illicitly filming renters at his beach property, a South Carolina workers’ compensation attorney now faces a civil lawsuit by one of the alleged...
South Carolina Extends Use of Emergency Adjusters After Helene
Jan 14 2025 // Property and auto insurers in South Carolina can keep non-resident adjusters on the job for at least another 90 days, until April 25, due to the continued need after Hurricane Helene, the state insurance commissioner said...
South Carolina Leads Country in People Moving in, U-Haul Says
Jan 3 2025 // U-Haul, one of the best-known providers of trucks, vans and moving supplies, also tracks where that equipment is being used. And in 2024, Southeastern states led the nation, with South Carolina ranking as the state with...
7 in South Carolina Plead Guilty to Defrauding Aflac But Get No Jail Time
Dec 13 2024 // Seven people in South Carolina pleaded guilty this week to a scheme to defraud Aflac Insurance and other insurers out of more than $70,000 by making false claims with forged documents. But they won’t be going to...
With 13 New Members, SC Senate Could Tackle Joint Liability, Liquor Insurance
Dec 11 2024 // COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — With the largest number of newly elected members at least since World War II, Republican South Carolina Senate leaders are thinking about tackling some issues like tax reform and liquor liability...
South Carolina Drunk Driver Who Hit Bride on Wedding Day Sentenced to 25 Years
Dec 4 2024 // A woman who admitted to drinking and who was driving well over twice the speed limit when she smashed into a golf cart, killing a bride who had just got married at a South Carolina beach, was sentenced Monday to 25 years...
Truliant Insurance Acquires Atkins & Associates in Greenville, South Carolina
Nov 27 2024 // Truliant Federal Credit Union and its Truliant Insurance subsidiary has acquired Atkins & Associates Insurance Agency in Greenville, South Carolina, expanding the firm’s presence in the Southeast. Atkins has been...
South Carolina Lab Recaptures 5 More Escaped Monkeys But 13 Still on the Loose
Nov 13 2024 // YEMASSEE, S.C. (AP) — Employees at a South Carolina compound that breeds monkeys for medical research have recaptured five more animals that escaped last week from an enclosure that wasn’t fully locked. As of...
SC Man Sentenced for Targeting Drivers in Parking Lot Insurance Fraud Scheme
Nov 7 2024 // A 44-year-old South Carolina man was sentenced to 18 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to an auto insurance fraud scheme that targeted elderly drivers in parking lots. In 2020 through 2022, Cornelius Jones, 44, of...
Pinnacol’s EverPeak Workers’ Comp Coverage Expands Into South Carolina
Sep 12 2024 // EverPeak Insurance, a workers’ compensation insurer that specializes in hard-to-place industries and small businesses, has recently expanded into South Carolina. Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Vlad...
The Murdaugh Drama in SC Continues: Store That Sold Beer Now Suing its Insurers
Aug 27 2024 // The saga of the Murdaugh family in South Carolina continues, now with a convenience store company suing its liability insurers for failing to defend it against a second lawsuit stemming from the sale of beer to an underage...
