Latest South Carolina Headlines
All the headlines from our South Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Uber Pays Fine Imposed on South Carolina Driver
Dec 8 2014 // Editor’s Note: This is a corrected version of this story. In a story Dec. 6 about a driver for the Internet ride-sharing company Uber being fined, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the driver had been...
South Carolina Eyes Mandating Database Use to Curb Painkiller Abuse
Dec 3 2014 // A council created by Gov. Nikki Haley says requiring doctors to use a statewide database to check their patients’ prescription history can reduce the rampant abuse of painkillers in South Carolina. The...
South Carolina School’s Post-Game Ritual Prompts Reputational Damage Claim
Nov 26 2014 // The parents of three Charleston, S.C. football players have filed a lawsuit claiming characterizations of the team’s controversial post-game watermelon ritual damaged their sons’ reputations. The Post and...
South Carolina Holding Hearings on Medical Marijuana
Nov 14 2014 // A legislative panel looking at the use of medical marijuana in South Carolina is holding hearings. The committee met in Greenville on Thursday with another session set for Florence next month. The panel established earlier...
AssuredPartners Acquires Premiere Coastal Insurance Group in South Carolina
Nov 6 2014 // AssuredPartners Inc., through its subsidiary Assured Neace Lukens, has acquired Premiere Coastal Insurance Group. No financial terms were disclosed. Premiere Coastal Insurance Group specializes in providing insurance...
South Carolina Approves CAT Models, Weighs Building Public Model
Nov 4 2014 // South Carolina regulators have approved seven private catastrophe models for use in ratemaking while conducting a legislatively mandated study on the feasibility of constructing a public model. South Carolina Insurance...
South Carolina Approves CAT Models, Weighs Building Public Model
Nov 3 2014 // South Carolina regulators have approved seven private catastrophe models for use in ratemaking while conducting a legislatively mandated study on the feasibility of constructing a public model. South Carolina Insurance...
South Carolina Liquidating Commercial Auto Insurer First Keystone
Oct 29 2014 // The South Carolina Department of Insurance last week declared an insurer that specialized in providing commercial auto insurance to be insolvent and the insurer is now being liquidated. The First Keystone Risk Retention...
South Carolina Jury Awards $97 Million in Mayor’s Shooting
Oct 20 2014 // A federal jury in Charleston has awarded the family of the former mayor of Cottageville $97 million for his shooting death. The jury reached the decision in the negligence and wrongful death suit filed by the family of...
South Carolina Jury Awards Employee $1 Million in Defamation Claim
Oct 7 2014 // A former Orangeburg, S.C., nursing home employee has won a defamation lawsuit against his former employer. Ralph C. Williams Sr., 58, has been awarded $1 million after being cleared of charges that he sexually assaulted a...
BusinessFirst Now Offering Workers’ Comp in South Carolina
Oct 7 2014 // BusinessFirst Insurance Co., a Florida-based workers’ compensation insurer, is continuing to expand in the southeast by offering coverage to South Carolina employers. The Lakeland, Florida-based BusinessFirst, was...
South Carolina DUI Locking Device Law Now in Effect
Oct 2 2014 // A law requiring more people convicted of drunken driving in South Carolina to use a locking device that won’t let their car start if they have been drinking is now in effect. The state Department of Probation, Parole...
How South Carolina Has Changed Disaster Plans in 25 Years Since Hurricane Hugo
Sep 19 2014 // This weekend’s 25th anniversary of Hurricane Hugo offers South Carolina residents the chance to remember the devastation wrought by their worst storm in the past century – and to be ready in case another such...
South Carolina: Kickball Injury Covered by Workers’ Compensation
Sep 8 2014 // The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled that an employee injured during a company kickball game is entitled to workers’ compensation benefits. The court found that Stephen Whigham’s kickball injury was covered...
South Carolina Ex-Lawmaker Viers Pleads Not Guilty in Contractor Insurance Case
Sep 2 2014 // A lawyer for a former South Carolina House member said he may not have realized what he was doing was wrong when he moved around the assets of a businessman who an insurance company was pursuing after he defaulted on a...
South Carolina Employee Scores Workers’ Compensation Win for Kickball Injury
Aug 29 2014 // The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled this week that an employee injured during a company kickball game is entitled to workers’ compensation benefits. The court found that Stephen Whigham’s kickball injury was...
South Carolina’s Companion P&C to Be Acquired by Enstar Group
Aug 27 2014 // Enstar Group Limited in Bermuda said Tuesday it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Companion Property and Casualty Insurance Company from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of South Carolina. The total...
South Carolina Jury Awards Family $2 Million in Claim Against Medical Center
Aug 25 2014 // A Spartanburg County South Carolina woman’s family has been awarded $2 million in damages for her death five years ago. A jury recently found in favor of the family of Janice G. Easler, the Herald-Journal of...
Interview with South Carolina Commissioner Farmer
Aug 18 2014 // State’s Insurance Markets Moving in Right Direction, Says Former AIA Rep South Carolina Insurance Commissioner Ray Farmer has been the state’s insurance regulator since Governor Nikki Haley appointed him in...
South Carolina Reports Rise in Insurance Fraud
Aug 12 2014 // Insurance fraud complaints in South Carolina have reached an all-time high with more than 1,200 pouring in last year, according to a report by Attorney General Alan Wilson. The annual report from his office’s...
