Latest South Carolina Headlines
All the headlines from our South Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Esurance to Hire 450 for New South Carolina Sales Office
Feb 20 2014 // Esurance, the direct-to-consumer insurance company, will open a new sales and claims office in Greenville, South Carolina, this summer that will employ up to 450 South Carolina residents. The insurer said job openings will...
South Carolina’s Johnson & Johnson Buys H.T. Bailey of Massachusetts
Feb 18 2014 // Johnson & Johnson, a Charleston, South Carolina managing general agency, has acquired wholesale broker H.T. Bailey Insurance Group in Burlington and Quincy, Mass. Under its new ownership, H.T. Bailey will continue to...
South Carolina City Bans Texting While Driving
Feb 13 2014 // Greenville, South Carolina has banned texting while driving. The city council voted this week to make it illegal to use a hand-held device while driving. The ban taking effect April 1 also applies to vehicles stopped in...
South Carolina Livability Courts Settle Neighborhood Complaints
Feb 7 2014 // Sitting in Judge Alesia Rico Flores or Judge Michael Molony’s courtroom in Charleston or Judge Debra Jackson’s in Florence, defendants and onlookers realize that while these municipal courts uphold the rule of...
Program Brokerage Corp. Acquires South Carolina’s Sirles
Feb 3 2014 // Program Brokerage Corp. (PBC), a wholesale subsidiary of insurance broker Hub International Limited (Hub), sad it has acquired the assets of Sirles Insurance Group Inc., a South Carolina-based commercial insurance...
People – Southeast
Jan 27 2014 // Starr Companies said it has appointed Eleanor Kitzman as vice president of Starr Insurance Holdings Inc. Kitzman will have regulatory, management and operational responsibilities across the company’s domestic and...
South Carolina Neighbors Sue Plant, Claim Pollution Caused Cancer
Jan 21 2014 // A Spartanburg, South Carolina neighborhood is suing a chemical plant, saying pollution has caused dozens of cancer cases. The lawsuit filed last week in federal court accuses a Hoechst Celanese polyester manufacturing...
Stolen Laptop Contained Data on S.C. Health Insurance Pool Members
Dec 31 2013 // A laptop stolen from an auditor’s car contained the personal information of more than 3,400 members of the South Carolina Health Insurance Pool, an attorney hired by the pool told The Associated Press on Monday. The...
South Carolina Jury Awards $890K to Man Wrongly Accused by Condo Board
Dec 16 2013 // A Clarendon County jury has awarded $890,000 in damages to a man after members of the governing board at his condominium wrongly identified him as a registered sex offender. James E. King thinks the situation stemmed from...
South Carolina Police Officer Loses Facebook Firing Suit
Dec 11 2013 // A federal judge has ruled against a former police officer who argued in a lawsuit that Greenville officials violated her free speech rights by firing her over comments posted on a social networking site. Former Sgt. Susan...
Ex-Texas, South Carolina Regulator Kitzman Joins Starr Insurance as VP
Dec 9 2013 // Starr Companies said it has appointed Eleanor Kitzman as vice president of Starr Insurance Holdings Inc. Kitzman will have regulatory, management and operational responsibilities across the company’s domestic and...
Obama Product Safety Chief Tenenbaum Returns to South Carolina
Dec 6 2013 // After four years in Washington as the nation’s products safety czar, Inez Tenenbaum is coming home to the Columbia area, her life changed in ways large and small. “Now I’m always giving advice unsolicited...
South Carolina’s Greenville Eyes Driver Cellphone Ban
Dec 5 2013 // Greenville, South Carolina is considering a ban on any use of a cellphone in a driver’s hand. The city has created a task force to look at driving safety. Mayor Pro Tem David Sudduth said Monday they determined just...
Insurance Lab in South Carolina Aims to Alter ‘Cycle of Destruction’
Dec 2 2013 // The insurance industry hopes a 21,000-square-foot lab in rural South Carolina can help revolutionize the way homes are built and stem the cost of Mother Nature’s disasters. Officials at the Insurance Institute for...
South Carolina City’s Special Court to Deal with Abandoned Properties
Oct 24 2013 // Florence is taking steps to deal with abandoned and run-down buildings and revitalize neighborhoods by starting a city livability court. The Morning News reported that the court approved by the City Council last week will...
South Carolina Eyes Raising Penalties to Improve Construction Zone Safety
Oct 18 2013 // A bill proposed by two state senators would increase fines and jail time for driving violations in construction zones in South Carolina. “It’s common sense to take these extra steps for safety,” Sen. Paul...
Feds Vow More Oversight at South Carolina Nuclear Plant
Sep 25 2013 // Federal officials announced they are going to be doing more oversight at a South Carolina nuclear power plant that has tallied a number of incidents in recent years. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is going to keep a...
South Carolina’s Shealy Used to Being Lone Woman
Sep 23 2013 // Katrina Frye Shealy was the only woman in her insurance agency for years. It turns out that that was useful experience for her political career. Today Shealy is the sole woman in the South Carolina...
Insurance Pros in Politics: Shealy is Sole Woman in South Carolina Senate
Sep 11 2013 // Katrina Frye Shealy was the only woman in her insurance agency for years. It turns out that that was useful experience for her political career. Today Shealy is the sole woman in the South Carolina Senate. Sen. Katrina...
Premium Increases Under Obamacare Not as High as Expected: Study
Sep 9 2013 // The federal Affordable Care Act will not lead to widespread premium increases in the individual health insurance market. That’s according to a new analysis of 10 states and the United States overall by RAND Corp.,...
