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Wednesday, April 24, 2013  The South Carolina Budget and Control Board has been ordered to return state employee health insurance premiums that a court says were collected illegally.

Tuesday, March 19, 2013  As the rebuilding process begins for those who lost their belongings in the Windsor Green fire, some are thinking about what they could have done differently to protect their homes.

Tuesday, January 15, 2013  Police are still looking for the man

Saturday, December 15, 2012  The 58-year-old ringleader of an insurance scheme that involved cutting off the hand of a mentally disabled man has been sentenced to 14 years in prison.

Tuesday, December 04, 2012  The South Carolina Supreme Court has blocked an increase in costs for state employee health insurance.

Friday, November 30, 2012  In July, Allstate announced that they would not be renewing homeowner's insurance policies for 10,000 customers in South Carolina. One week ago, a woman who lives in Green Sea got her letter saying she was being dropped after 17 years.

Thursday, November 22, 2012  As many as 12,500 South Carolinians' personal information may be at risk after hackers broke into Nationwide Insurance Company's computer network.

Tuesday, November 20, 2012  Patrick J. O'Hara of the Florence County Sheriff's Office has been named the 2012 Arson Investigator of the year by the South Carolina Insurance Fraud Investigators

Tuesday, November 13, 2012  Gov. Nikki Haley has picked a new chief of South Carolina's Department of Insurance.

Friday, October 26, 2012  Hurricane season officially ends next month and storms like Sandy, that form this late in the year, are rare. To improve the safety of his home during severe weather, one Horry County man is taking advantage of SC Safe Home, a hurricane damage and mitigation program.

Monday, October 15, 2012  Officials with the Palmetto Payback Program were on the Grand Strand Monday.

Tuesday, September 25, 2012  The South Carolina Supreme Court will decide if state employees must pay more for health insurance.

Tuesday, August 14, 2012  A University of South Carolina professor has filed a class-action lawsuit against a state panel for raising public workers' health care premiums.

Wednesday, August 01, 2012  One of eight provisions under the Women's Preventative Health Care amendment went into effect Wednesday, saying insurance companies now have to pay for birth control.

Tuesday, July 24, 2012  The largest health insurer in South Carolina is sending rebate checks to some policyholders because it failed to meet a requirement of the federal health care law.