Latest South Carolina Headlines
All the headlines from our South Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
A Look at the Liquor Liability Landscape
Mar 18 2024 // Liquor liability availability and pricing have put small business owners in the alcohol-related sector in some states in a bind. While securing coverage is easy in some areas, premiums have skyrocketed and carriers have...
Record Rainfall Hits Charleston, South Carolina, Forcing Flood Rescues
Mar 12 2024 // CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A record-setting rainstorm flooded parts of Charleston, South Carolina, on Saturday, requiring emergency responders to help some people get out of high waters. The National Weather Service in...
South Carolina Lawmakers Mulling Liquor Liability Fund to Ease Coverage Crisis
Feb 20 2024 // Businesses and homeowners will be familiar with insurers of last resort – the state-created, quasi-governmental organizations that provide property and liability coverage when the primary market won’t. These...
South Carolina House Endorses Paid Family Leave Insurance Bill
Feb 14 2024 // The South Carolina House of Representatives has approved a framework for paid family leave insurance in the state, sending House Bill 4832 to the Senate. By a vote of 110-0, the House last week passed the bill that would...
Captive Insurance Expert Pleads Guilty to Aiding Solar Ponzi Scheme Leaders
Feb 12 2024 // Remember the Carpoffs, the California couple sent to prison in 2021 and 2022 for running a $1 billion Ponzi scheme tied to mobile solar generators? The scheme that reportedly ensnared Warren Buffet’s Berkshire...
South Carolina Liquor Liability Market ‘Extremely Unprofitable,’ DOI Report Says
Feb 5 2024 // A report from the South Carolina Department of Insurance confirms what insurers and bars and restaurants have said for the past few years: Liquor liability coverage in the state is “extremely unprofitable” for...
Witness Affidavit Not Needed Before ‘John Doe’ Auto Suit Filed – SC Supreme Court
Jan 25 2024 // A driver may file a “John Doe” civil action against an unknown driver, even without first obtaining an statement from a third-party witness. But an affidavit must be produced promptly upon request, the South...
911 Call Shows What Happened When Young Man Entered Wrong House in SC
Jan 25 2024 // COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A concerned college student asked police if they’d seen his fraternity brother early one Saturday morning after he’d sent the 20-year-old home from a sports bar in an Uber. He...
SC Roads Chief Retires, Praised for Disaster Response, Highway Improvements
Jan 22 2024 // COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s well-respected transportation leader Christy Hall is retiring after spending the past decade overseeing billions of dollars in highway spending after the state raised its gas...
Tangram Enters Reinsurance Brokerage Market with SC-based Preferred Re
Jan 18 2024 // Tangram Insurance Services, an independent managing general agency based in California, has acquired Preferred Reinsurance Intermediaries in Columbia, South Carolina, marking Tangram’s entry into the reinsurance...
South Carolina Liquor Liability Market ‘Extremely Unprofitable,’ DOI Report Finds
Jan 11 2024 // A report from the South Carolina Department of Insurance confirms what insurers and bars and restaurants have said for the past few years: Liquor liability coverage in the state is “extremely unprofitable” for...
Top Southeast Insurance Journal Stories of 2023
Dec 29 2023 // Outside of the turbulent state of Florida, the Southeastern U.S. saw its share of insurance issues, from carriers pulling out of Georgia to roof-matching requirements in Kentucky to liquor liability problems in South...
Parts of South Carolina and Florida Recovering after Flooding, Winds
Dec 19 2023 // GEORGETOWN, S.C. (AP) — An intense late-year storm barreled up the East Coast on Sunday with heavy rains and strong winds that shattered rainfall records, forced water rescues from flooded streets and washed out...
South Carolina Education Chief Wants Police to Have Maps of Schools for Response
Dec 15 2023 // GILBERT, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s top education official plans to ask lawmakers for $5 million to put a digital map of every school in the state online and make those maps immediately available on police...
SC Appeals Court: Insurer’s Bad Faith Meant Award Was 10X Policy Limit
Dec 14 2023 // Jose Castillo didn’t ask his insurance company to defend him from a lawsuit that alleged his shoddy construction caused millions of dollars in water damage to a townhouse project, so his insurer didn’t provide...
Service Workers Union Asks Feds to Oversee South Carolina’s ‘Lax’ Safety Agency
Dec 8 2023 // COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — One of the largest labor organizations in the United States petitioned the federal government on Thursday to wrest workplace safety oversight from South Carolina regulators accused of failing to...
Woman Fell Through Floorboards and a Hidden Well Shaft in SC Home Fatality
Nov 30 2023 // SALEM, S.C. (AP) — An 83-year-old woman who died when she fell through rotting floorboards in a century-old South Carolina house fell down a well shaft the owner didn`t know was there, authorities said. It took...
Alex Murdaugh Gets 27 Years Added to Prison Time for $12M Theft From Clients
Nov 29 2023 // For years, South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh looked his anguished clients in the eyes and promised to help them with their medical bills, their suffering or simply to survive. Then he stole most, if not all, of what he...
Alacrity Acquires South Carolina’s Cross Country Adjusting
Nov 21 2023 // Insurance Claims management service Alacrity Solutions Group, has acquired Cross Country Adjusting of Pageland, South Carolina. CCA, founded in 2005, provides residential and commercial property claims adjusting through a...
Markets/Coverages: SURE Brings Commercial Coverage to South Carolina
Nov 8 2023 // SureChoice Underwriters Reciprocal Exchange (SURE), a policyholder-owned coastal insurer, in partnership with SageSure, a large managing general underwriters focused on catastrophe-exposed markets, has announced its...
