Terms Used In South Carolina Code 38-101-70

  • insurance: includes annuities. See South Carolina Code 38-1-20
  • Insurer: includes a corporation, fraternal organization, burial association, other association, partnership, society, order, individual, or aggregation of individuals engaging or proposing or attempting to engage as principals in any kind of insurance or surety business, including the exchanging of reciprocal or interinsurance contracts between individuals, partnerships, and corporations. See South Carolina Code 38-1-20
  • Policy: means a contract of insurance. See South Carolina Code 38-1-20
A surplus lines broker may place a policy or endorsement providing flood insurance coverage to an eligible surplus lines insurer without making a diligent effort to seek such coverage from one or more admitted insurers required pursuant to § 38-45-90.