Latest South Carolina Headlines
All the headlines from our South Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
South Carolina Auto Insurance Rates up Slightly in 2006
Nov 7 2008 // South Carolina auto insurance rates increased slightly in 2006, but remained on average lower than most national rates. A study by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners showed that South Carolina drivers paid...
South Carolina Lab Tests Homes in Wind, Hail
Nov 2 2008 // Property and casualty insurers are hoping a new facility coming to South Carolina will do for home building what crash-test dummies have done for car safety. The Institute for Business and Home Safety announced a $27...
New South Carolina Lab will Test Full-size Homes in Wind, Hail
Oct 23 2008 // Property and casualty insurers are hoping a new facility coming to South Carolina will do for home building what crash-test dummies have done for car safety. The Institute for Business and Home Safety announced a $27...
South Carolina Residents Sentenced in Workers’ Comp Scam
Oct 20 2008 // Two South Carolina residents will each spend up to 10 years in prison for scamming West Virginia’s workers’ compensation system for more than 15 years. Prosecutors said 60-year-old Harriett Miller and...
Southern Drought Creeping Northward to West Virginia
Oct 20 2008 // Extreme drought conditions, the second-worst possible, have now spread into Kentucky, and severe conditions have returned to West Virginia and southwest Virginia, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. “The last...
Authorities Investigating South Carolina Home Fires as Arson
Oct 20 2008 // South Carolina police say a fire that destroyed three houses and damaged two others in Rock Hill is being investigated as an arson. The fire early on the morning of Oct. 17 spread quickly from house to house. Authorities...
Dallas-Based Apex Global Expands Aviation Division into South Carolina
Oct 13 2008 // Dallas, Texas-based Apex Global Partners opened a new aviation insurance office in Charleston, S.C. and appointed Paul Gingrich as vice president in its aviation division. Apex Global Aviation Services provides insurance...
S.C. Safe Home Program Updates Web Site
Oct 6 2008 // The South Carolina Safe Home Hurricane Damage Mitigation Program has a new Web site. The site, www.scsafehome.sc.gov, offers information about the damage mitigation grant program as well as information about the various...
Federal Investigators Check Highway Under South Carolina Jet Crash
Sep 25 2008 // Federal investigators are examining the South Carolina road a Lear jet crossed before crashing shortly after takeoff at Columbia Metropolitan Airport, killing four people and injuring two popular musicians. On Sept. 23...
South Carolina Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund Running Low
Sep 22 2008 // The head of the South Carolina employment office says the trust fund that pays benefits to out-of-work residents is projected to run out of money in January. Employment Security Commission chief Ted Halley said Sept. 19...
South Carolina Coastal Risk Conference Garners Insurer Support
Sep 18 2008 // The American Insurance Association is participating in this week’s conference “Out of the Storm: Confronting America’s Catastrophic Risk Crisis,” organized by the South Carolina Department of...
South Carolina Safe Home Program Announces New Web Site
Sep 17 2008 // The South Carolina Safe Home Hurricane Damage Mitigation Program has a new Web site. The new site, www.scsafehome.sc.gov, offers information about the damage mitigation grant program as well as information about the...
Experts Meet in South Carolina, Discuss Making Homes Hurricane Ready
Sep 12 2008 // Getting people back in their homes quickly is vital to hurricane recovery, the head of a national program to build more storm-resistant homes said at a conference in South Carolina. “The faster you get the people...
Everest Subsidiary Offers Non Standard Auto Product in South Carolina
Sep 12 2008 // Everest Security Insurance Co., a U.S. insurance subsidiary of Everest Re Group Ltd., is now offering non-standard automobile insurance in South Carolina through its network of independent agents. Everest Security...
Tropical Storm Hanna Landfalls in Carolinas, Ike Threatens Florida
Sep 7 2008 // Tropical Storm Hanna blew ashore over tourist beaches on the North-South Carolina border early on Sept. 6 at the start of a projected dash up the Eastern Seaboard. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Hanna’s...
South Carolina Insurance Commissioner Heeds Hanna’s Build-up
Sep 4 2008 // As Tropical Storm Hanna strengthens and takes aim at the Carolinas, the South Carolina Department of Insurance reminds homeowners to review their insurance policies and brace for potential damage. “We urge South...
Wholesaler CRC Insurance Acquires Competitor Southern Risk of S.C.
Sep 3 2008 // CRC Insurance Services Inc., the wholesale insurance subsidiary of BB&T Corp., reports it has completed a purchase of Southern Risk Operations LLC. Sumter, S.C.-based Southern Risk is an excess and surplus (E&S)...
Hanna Becomes Hurricane Then Stalls; Heads for Georgia, South Carolina
Sep 2 2008 // According to catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide, storm development in the tropical Atlantic was even more active on Tuesday than it was on Monday. Shortly after Gustav came ashore in Louisiana on Monday, Hanna...
South Carolina Governor Drops Workers’ Comp Payment Fight
Sep 1 2008 // South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has backed away from efforts to force the state Workers’ Compensation Commission to accept new injury payment standards, accepting a settlement agreement that would end months of...
South Carolina County Now Using Photos of 911 Sites
Aug 21 2008 // Charleston County, South Carolina has a new tool to help emergency crews better respond to 911 calls. Dispatchers are using Pictometry, a new system that brings up a picture of the location and neighborhood from where a...
