Property and Casualty Rate Filings Webinar

The Department's Office of Market Services will be hosting a Property and Casualty Rate Filings Webinar at 10:30AM ET on November 10, 2021.  This session will provide insight into the rate filing submission and review process.   The inte...

Order Number 2021-04

Rates for Credit Accident and Health Insurance Sold in Conjunction with Loans Subject To 1966 S.C. Act No. 988--Approved Rate for 2022 Basic Statistical Plan

This matter comes before me for final approval of rates for credit accident and health insurance s...

Order Number 2021-03

IN THE MATTER OF: Rates for Credit Property Insurance Sold in Conjunction with Loans Subject to 1966 S.C. Act No. 988 --- Approved Rate for 2022 Basic Statistical Plan 

This matter comes before me for final approval of rates for credit property in...

Order Number 2021-02

IN THE MATTER OF: Rates for Credit Accident and Health Insurance Sold in Conjunction with Consumer Credit Transactions subject to the South Carolina Consumer Protection Code (S.C. Code Ann.§ 37-1-101 et seq.), Other Than Loans Made Under 1966 S.C. Act No....

Bulletin 2021-03 New Insurance Fraud Prevention and Prosecution Unit

SCMMA RFP

To All Interested Persons:

The SCMMA is hosting a mandatory pre-bid conference for all persons interested in submitting a proposal in response to SCMMA RFP No. 2021-001.    The mandatory  pre-bid conference will be held...

Rates & Forms Filing Timeline for Plan & Policy Years Beginning in 2022

This memorandum details the filing timelines for issuers offering:

• individual or small group non-grandfathered health insurance coverage; or 
• coverage of pediatric dental services under Exchange-certified Stand-Alone Dental Plans (SADPs).

It applies...

Corrective Action Order 2021-01

Corrective Action Order 2021-01: Self-Funded Rates for the Workers’ Compensation Assigned Risk Plan

Bulletin 2021-01: Transitional Policy Extension

On January 19, 2021, the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO) issued an Insurance Standards Bulletin to extend the transitional policy (now referred to as a non-enforcement policy by CCIIO) that was originally announced on Novem...

Order No. 2020-06 Renewal of the Expansion of the SCWHUA Territory

This regards the renewal of the Jan. 7, 2019 expansion of the South Carolina Wind and Hail Underwriting Association (SCWHUA) territory enabling the association to provide essential insurance coverage to areas within the seacoast area.

Urgent- PBM Application Deadline Tuesday December 1, 2020

Monday, November 30, 2020

Reminder: Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) License

Application Deadline is Tuesday December 1, 2020

This notice serves as an urgent reminder to companies offering PBM services in South Carolina. The law that requires pharmacy benefi...

Order 2020-05. Retroactive Accident and Health Insurance

This matter comes before me for final approval of rates for credit accident and health insurance sold in conjunction with loans subject to the South Carolina Consumer Protection Code.  Pursuant to the provisions of S.C. Code Ann. Section 34-29-10...

Order Number 2020-04 Rates for Credit Property Insurance

This matter comes before me for final approval of rates for credit property insurance sold in conjunction with loans subject to the South Carolina Consumer Protection Code. Pursuant to the provisions of S.C. Code Ann. Section 34-29-10, et seq. (1976, as a...

Order Number 2020-03 Rates for Credit Accident and Health Insurance

This matter comes before me for final approval of rates for credit accident and health insurance sold in conjunction with loans subject to the South Carolina Consumer Protection Code, other than loans made under S.C. Act No. 988 of 1966.  Pursuan...

Order Number 2020-02: Mandating Electronic Payment Options

It has come to the South Carolina Department of Insurance’s attention that some licensees are 1) refusing to accept cash from their policyholders as a method of payment and 2) thereby requiring policyholders to transact business digitally or ele...

Bulletin Number 2020-03A - Modification to temporary licensing

To:  All insurers, producers, surplus lines brokers, bail bondsmen, and other licensed or authorized persons transacting the business of insurance in South Carolina. 

From: Raymond G. Farmer, Director of Insurance

This Bulletin modifies te...

Bulletin 2020-10 PBM License Application Timeline and Instruction

To: All Pharmacy Benefit Managers Doing Business in this State, and Other Interested Parties

From: Raymond G. Farmer, Director of Insurance

Purpose

The purpose of this bulletin is to establish filing timelines for Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) applying fo...

Bulletin 2020-09 Notice of Tentative 2021 Credit Accident and Health Insurance Rates and Opportunit

• NOTICE OF TENTATIVE CREDIT ACCIDENT AND HEALTH INSURANCE RATES

Regulation 69-11.1, Regulation of Credit Insurance, requires the South Carolina Department of Insurance (Department) to promulgate tentative rates for credit accident and health insur...

Bulletin 2020-8 Notice of Tentative 2021 Accident and Health Insurance Rates for 3-day Retro

NOTICE OF TENTATIVE CREDIT ACCIDENT AND HEALTH INSURANCE RATES

Regulation 69-11.1, Regulation of Credit Insurance, requires the South Carolina Department of Insurance (Department) to promulgate tentative rates for credit accident and health insur...

Bulletin 2020-7 Notice of Tentative 2021 Credit Property Insurance Rates and Opportunity to R

NOTICE OF TENTATIVE CREDIT PROPERTY INSURANCE RATES

Regulation 69-11.1, Regulation of Credit Insurance, requires the South Carolina Department of Insurance to promulgate tentative rates for credit property insurance by August 1 of each year. The ...

Bulletin 2020-06 SC Safe Home Program

The South Carolina Department of Insurance administers the South Carolina Safe Home Mitigation Grant Program as set forth in S.C. Code Ann. §38-75-485 (2017). The program provides matching and non-matching grant funds to help coastal property own...

Revised Filing Timeline for 2021 Health and Dental Plans - Memo to Issuers

MEMORANDUM

To: Issuers of Individual and Small Group Health Insurance Coverage and Issuers of Exchange-certified Stand-Alone Dental Coverage

From: Kendall Buchanan, Deputy Director of Market Regulation and Public Information

Subject: Revised Filing Timeline ...

Bulletin 2020-05 Filing Requirement Extensions

To: All Insurance companies, including captive insurance companies and other persons licensed to transact business in South Carolina

From: Raymond G. Farmer, Insurance Director

Purpose

As you are aware, South Carolina and most other states are in a State of ...

Bulletin Number 2020-04

To all licensees of the South Carolina Department of Insurance, including guaranty fund associations, surplus lines insurers and other persons registered or authorized to operate pursuant to the Insurance laws of this state.

From  Raymond G. Farme...