About the SC Insurance News Service
South Carolina Insurance News Service is a nonprofit organization providing insurance information to consumers, companies, and the media.
We are funded by insurance companies doing business in South Carolina and are primarily concerned with insurance issues affecting the people of South Carolina.
The SCINS Board of Directors believes that it is critically important for its customers to have a better understanding of how insurance works. SCINS also works to enhance the reputation of the industry by acting as a resource and communicating accurate information to member companies, the media, and the public.
By providing free and accurate information relating to the insurance marketplace and/or its challenges (from a consumer standpoint), this insurance information organization helps build public confidence and develop a more educated consumer public.
With a history of integrity, SCINS is uniquely positioned to act on behalf of its member companies as an education-based, non-lobbying organization. The SC Insurance News Service supports its members by:
- Forming/developing strategic partnerships and building rapport with other organizations, coalitions, member company representatives, and personnel within the SC Department of Insurance to improve management on common issues and provide enhanced access to information
- Taking the responsibility for the development of communications, research, messaging, and product delivery on all relevant issues and emerging insurance topics
- Earning media placement on behalf of member companies and updating the website on the topics enumerated as either key communication issues, general consumer education, or catastrophe response information
- Delivering key messages in a variety of ways: submitting guest editorials and letters to the editor, offering comment and being available for interviews, pitching stories to reporters, issuing press releases, drafting white papers and fact sheets, engaging in social media, and many other commonly accepted methods of communication
- Distributing daily news clips on insurance topics to members
- Circulating a weekly legislative summary to members (during session)
- Funding and publicizing the South Carolina Arson Hotline, 1-800-92-ARSON
- Working with the SC Attorney General's Office on publicizing information about insurance fraud and the SC Insurance Fraud Hotline - 1-888-95-FRAUD.
