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By Peter Hull, The Post and Courier June 26, 2006 Two of the parties that oppose a proposed workers’ compensation insurance rate increase have asked a state court judge to make available information that could show how many of the state’s employers overpaid on their workers’ comp premiums and by how much. The move comes […]

By Peter Hull, The Post and Courier June 22, 2006 Employers in South Carolina were overcharged for several years on their workers’ compensation insurance premiums because calculations used to set premium rates were in error. But unlike their counterparts in some other parts of the country, employers here won’t be receiving a refund of their

By Kimberly Parent, National Underwriter Published June 19, 2006 A recent study has found that small businesses in South Carolina are not receiving the state’s second injury fund rate reduction benefits they are supposed to. The analysis was conducted by Advance Insurance Management, an independent consulting firm based in Riverside, Ill., for the South Carolina

By Jim Sams, WorkCompCentral Published June 8, 2006 More than half of South Carolina small businesses that qualify for reduced premiums because claims were paid by the state’s Second Injury Fund are not getting the credits they deserve, the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce charged Wednesday. The Small Business Chamber said a study

By Peter Hull, The Post and Courier Published June 8, 2006 With a proposed increase in workers’ compensation rates in the hands of a state judge, a state small business advocate says thousands of employers may have paid too much for workers’ compensation premiums for at least five years. A study conducted for the South Carolina

June 7, 2006 Columbia, SC– A study of Workers’ Compensation Second Injury Fund claims shows that 51% of small businesses qualifying for premium reductions did not receive them. The study was conducted by Advanced Management Insurance for the SC Small Business Chamber of Commerce. The Second Injury Fund was established to encourage businesses to hire

By Renee Dudley | The Post and Courier May 22, 2006 In 2006, the South Carolina Legislature repealed a decades-old insurance code, stripping the state’s authority to regulate discounting in contracts between hospitals and insurers. The deletion allowed the state’s biggest health insurance company, Blue Cross Blue Shield, to negotiate contracts that could cripple its competitors

By Jim Davenport Published March 8, 2006 COLUMBIA, SC.– A $6.3 billion budget and a couple of related spending bills are heading to the House floor. The House Ways and Means Committee wrapped up work Wednesday morning on the spending package for the fiscal year that begins July 1. It puts new Highway Patrol troopers