Suit filed over insurance hikes for public workers
A USC chemistry professor led a class action in Richland County claiming the Budget and Control Board lacked authority to raise health insurance premiums for 234 000 public workers and retirees. The suit seeks to block the Jan 1 increases after lawmakers agreed to fully cover them.
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Columbia
University of South Carolina
Thomas Bryson
USC
Budget and Control Board
Nikki Haley
Bryson
Michael Medlock
Edgefield
Richland County
Medlock
Public Employee Benefit Authority
Budget Oversight Board
Haley
Judge rejects amending Savannah dredging suit
A federal judge allowed Georgia Ports Authority and South Carolina’s Savannah River Maritime Commission to join the suit over the 650 million river deepening but denied expanding the case to test South Carolina environmental laws. The focus remains whether the project requires a South Carolina pollution permit.
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Georgia Ports Authority
South Carolina
Savannah River Maritime Commission
U.S
Richard Gergel
Georgia
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Southern Environmental Law Center
Savannah Riverkeeper
Augusta
South Carolina Coastal Conservation League
South Carolina Wildlife Federation
Maritime Commission
Georgia Ports
Panama Canal
Corps
Department of Health and Environmental Control
Nikki Haley
Haley
Propeller Club
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