Membership Information
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Our History
The South Carolina Insurance News Service (SCINS) was established in 1976 as a 501 (c)(6) trade association that represents property and casualty insurance companies that are licensed and do business in the state. The education-based, non-lobbying organization is designed and intended to provide factual information to consumers, news media representatives, and other interested parties on behalf of its member companies.
Mission and Objectives
As a member-driven organization, SCINS’ mission is to improve South Carolina’s insurance market by providing consumers and member companies with information and resources on relevant issues.
The SCINS Board of Directors believes that it is critically important for their customers to have a better understanding of how insurance works and 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 relative 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.
Products and Services
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 Department of Insurance to improve management on common issues and provide enhanced access to information
• being responsible 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 (www.scinsurance.net) 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).
For more information about membership, please call Russ Dubisky, Executive Director, at (803) 252-3455.
