Latest South Carolina Headlines
All the headlines from our South Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
S.C. Workers’ Comp Reform Advances Through House Subcommittee
Feb 24 2006 // The first step in achieving much needed workers’ compensation reform in South Carolina was taken this week as the House Business and Commerce subcommittee approved legislation (HB 4427) that addresses many of the...
Atlantic Beach, S.C. Works Out Payment Plan to Keep its Coverage
Feb 14 2006 // Atlantic Beach, S.C. officials say the town has worked out a payment plan with the state to keep insurance on police cars, town hall and other property. The town owed almost $9,000 in premiums to the South Carolina...
S.C. Big ‘I’ Names New Officers
Feb 9 2006 // The Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of South Carolina, during its 2006 annual membership meeting named Jon A. Jensen, chairman of the board; Julius J. Anderson Jr., chairman-elect and treasurer; and W. Ashley...
NCCI Official Predicts Higher Costs for S.C. Workers’ Compensation
Feb 8 2006 // South Carolina’s workers’ compensation costs promise to be much larger than the 12.7 percent suggested by Martin Simmons, the Consumer Advocate’s actuarial witness and according to Peter M. Burton, NCCI...
S.C. Legislators to Consider Asbestos Litigation Reform
Feb 6 2006 // To avoid the asbestos litigation crisis some states have experienced, South Carolina lawmakers have introduced legislation that will require plaintiffs to meet specific medical criteria in order to bring or pursue an...
S.C. Senator Seeks Oversight Study of Insurance Department
Feb 3 2006 // A Hartsville, S.C. senator called for hearings Thursday to study whether the state Insurance Department is operating efficiently. Democratic Sen. Gerald Malloy wants the hearings held before action is taken to overhaul the...
Five S.C. Legislators Receive ‘Seat Belt Champion Award’
Jan 31 2006 // Five legislators have each accepted a “Seat Belt Champion Award” from the Nashville-based Meharry-State Farm Alliance, that applauds their success at inserting a primary enforcement amendment into the...
AIA ‘Takes Issue’ With S.C. Workers’ Compensation Story
Jan 30 2006 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) takes issue with the AP article that appeared on Insurance Journal’s Web site Jan. 30, for it shows once again the extent to which opponents of workers’ compensation...
S.C. Attorney General’s Investigators Launch Insurance Fraud Crackdown
Jan 24 2006 // South Carolinians are seeing a larger portion of their paychecks go to rising insurance costs, according to Trey Walker, a spokesman for the Attorney General’s Office, where the budget has been boosted to chase...
Legislators, Business Owners Question S.C. Insurance Department Leadership
Jan 23 2006 // Some legislators and business owners are questioning leadership at the South Carolina Insurance Department, which has seen a staff shake-up and is preparing for the possibility of major changes in rates and the...
NCCI criticizes AP’s report on S.C. workers’ comp as ‘factually incorrect’
Jan 23 2006 // The National Council on Compensation Insurance Inc. has criticized recent Associated Press articles about NCCI’s review of the South Carolina Governor’s Workers Compensation Task Force proposal as being...
Workers’ compensation reform tops PCI’s legislative agenda in S.C.
Jan 23 2006 // Comprehensive reform of South Carolina’s workers’ compensation system, including repeal of the Second Injury Fund are top legislative priorities of the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America during...
BIG ‘I’S S.C. AGENDA: WORKERS’ COMP
Jan 23 2006 // Improving the state’s workers’ compensation system, developing coastal property insurance markets and increasing consumer awareness and educating them about insurance issues are key 2006 goals of the South...
Big ‘I’s S.C. agenda: Workers’ comp
Jan 22 2006 // Improving the state’s workers’ compensation system, developing coastal property insurance markets and increasing consumer awareness and educating them about insurance issues are key 2006 goals of the South...
Battle Looms in S.C. Over Eliminating Second Injury Fund
Jan 19 2006 // Legislative efforts to revise or totally eliminate South Carolina’s Second Injury Fund are being disputed by two small business groups that contend they are not convinced the changes would reduce workers’...
S.C. Gov. Sanford, PCI, Emphasize Workers’ Compensation Reform
Jan 13 2006 // The effort to implement comprehensive reform of the South Carolina workers’ compensation system took important steps forward this week as legislation was filed in the House and Senate and Gov. Mark Sanford expressed...
Workers’ Compensation Reform Tops PCI’s 2006 Legislative Agenda in S.C.
Jan 4 2006 // Comprehensive reform of the South Carolina workers’ compensation system, including the repeal of the Second Injury Fund are the top legislative priorities of the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America...
2005, a Year to Remember: Busiest Hurricane Season of the Century for United States
Dec 29 2005 // The hurricane season made 2005 a year-to-remember, with the southeast encountering the busiest hurricane season of the century, with 26 named storms and 13 hurricanes, meteorologists used up the list of 21 proper names and...
People & Places
Dec 19 2005 // Clint Bothwell Clint Bothwell has been named Southeast regional president for Harleysville Insurance and will work in its new Atlanta regional office. The company also named other regional field organization leaders as it...
People
Dec 18 2005 // Clint Bothwell has been named Southeast regional president for Harleysville Insurance and will work in its new Atlanta regional office. The company also named other regional field organization leaders as it realigned the...
