In South Carolina in 2025, Big Insurance Corporations have launched an unprecedented effort to make it harder for individual consumers to recover from their insurance companies when bad things happen to them. Conservatives need to stand up and call their legislators to make their voices heard.
In South Carolina in 2025, Big Insurance Corporations have launched an unprecedented effort to make it harder for individual consumers to recover from their insurance companies when bad things happen to them. Conservatives need to stand up and call their legislators to make their voices heard.
Coverage from South Carolina and beyond that proves this is a national conversation. These stories highlight what happens when insurance reform goes unchecked and how policy decisions can create real consequences for real people.
Understanding your insurance needs can help ensure you’re covered enough and not paying too much for your car or home insurance.
On Oct. 4, 2023, a vicious hail storm battered the Broken Arrow home of Billy and Lacy Hursh. Billy Hursh, 39, a Tulsa police lieutenant and leader of the SWAT negotiator team, was able to spot gouges to the shingles of his steep-roofed four-bedroom house from the ground. But it wasn’t until a worker got […]
Donald Trump Jr., like his father President Trump, believes that RINO politicians should never cave to corporate interests instead of serving constituents. On February 11, 2025, he voiced his opposition to S.244 on Twitter, calling the bill “a complete disaster” and adding that he hoped “the [South Carolina] legislature gets smart and strikes this down!”
In an in-depth recent piece covering the financial power and recent profitability growth at some of the country’s largest insurance corporations, the Wall Street Journal pointed out that premiums were soaring for individual customers, while the Big Insurance companies themselves were continuing to climb to record profits. We don’t need “tort reform” that hurts everyday […]
Brian Hicks of the Post & Courier pointed out the foolishness of passing “tort reform” that doesn’t actually reform the way insurance works in South Carolina — he called last year’s version of this bill something that “wasn’t justice for responsible bars and restaurants. Nothing in that bill reduced their insurance rates. It would’ve simply […]
Steven Burritt, the Executive Director of M.A.D.D. South Carolina, spoke out against an earlier version of this bill, rightly pointing out that trying to help bar owners without maintaining protections for victims of DUI’s is the WRONG way to go about liquor liability reform. DUI deaths in South Carolina are up 31% since 2017. And […]
Smart South Carolinians know that we can look to other states to see what works and what doesn’t. And that’s why Louisiana’s example is so powerful — when their state legislature passed so-called “tort reform” in 2020, the bill utterly “failed to lower premiums as its supporters promised.” And that is why MAGA Governor Jeff […]
Lawmakers are deciding the future of insurance reform. Let them know you oppose S.244 and stand for fairness and accountability.