South Carolina · Department of Insurance evidence
South Carolina insurance company counts and regulatory records
This page does not publish one South Carolina insurer total. A domestic insurer, a licensed foreign insurer, a captive, a surplus-lines insurer, a purchasing group, a reinsurer, a producer, an agency, and an adjuster stay separate. This page does not rank insurers.
Domestic and licensed foreign insurers for calendar year 2024. The table prints state rank 1. The 317 domestic insurers are inside this total.
Captive insurance companies. The NAIC table says captives are not included in the licensed-insurer count.
Producer, agency, adjuster, appointment, and surplus-lines broker rosters are null. Company lookup remains search-only.
NAIC insurer counts
The 2025 State Insurance Regulation: Key Facts and Market Trends — South Carolina uses calendar-year 2024 figures from the NAIC Insurance Department Resources Report. The publication is a 2025 edition. That title year is not the data year. Retrieved 2026-10-05. SHA-256 6e1c2e37c2c087aaab2b051bc7045ebb08b009a16c71700cf40199487cfeddfb. The scorecard overview page prints REGULATOR USE ONLY. Domestic insurers: 317, state rank 4. Domestic and licensed foreign insurers: 2,229, state rank 1. A foreign-only count is not printed. The domestic count is inside the combined count and is not added again. Captives are not included. These printed counts are not the April 2026 department list and not a producer census.
Captives
Captive companies: 230. Direct written premium $1,645,704,960. Total captive premium $3,375,906,848. Those two premium figures are not the same number. Captives stay outside the 2,229 licensed-insurer count.
Department complaints, inquiries, and staff
Complaints: 5,324, state rank 14. Inquiries: 9,344, state rank 22. Complaints are not findings, and inquiries are not complaints. Provider-level complaint rows and outcomes were NOT_ACQUIRED. Department employment is 126 staff, state rank 25. Staff are not producers. Taxes $333,962,561. Revenue $376,341,093. Budget $21,112,614. The 2024 cost of regulation is $0.40 per $1,000 of premium. The cost table does not print 2023, so that year is not zero.
April 2026 department company list
The List of Insurance Companies Authorized to Transact Business in South Carolina as of April 2026 is a different clock from the 2024 NAIC counts. PDF created 2026-04-23. SHA-256 346581a35528eb8c41a61760d0f38434233f0aed3324f2082b3595b6204718be. The file mixes authorized insurers with surplus-lines insurers, risk purchasing groups, reinsurers, rating organizations, and reinsurance intermediaries. Those printed types are not added, and the file does not print one total. The counts below are parsed from the company-type column. Two wrapped Eligible Surplus Lines Insurer names were joined, and one Approved Assuming Reinsurer row had a split initial. Property is a printed type of its own and is not folded into Property & Casualty. A mailing address in South Carolina is not the license count. Current company lookup uses the Department company search, which is search-only.
| Printed company type | Parsed rows |
|---|---|
| Property & Casualty | 933 |
| Risk Purchasing Group | 423 |
| Life | 416 |
| Eligible Surplus Lines Insurer | 302 |
| Casualty | 78 |
| Reinsurance Intermediary | 57 |
| Health | 43 |
| Reciprocal Reinsurer | 43 |
| Approved Assuming Reinsurer | 43 |
| Title | 30 |
| Health Maintenance Organization | 23 |
| Fraternal | 23 |
| Approved Unlicensed Reinsurer | 21 |
| Ratings Organization | 21 |
| Reciprocal | 16 |
| Advisory Organization | 12 |
| Certified Reinsurer | 8 |
| Property | 7 |
| Mutual Benevolent Aid Association | 5 |
| County Mutual | 5 |
Geography
Charleston, Columbia, and Greenville are geography only. This research publishes no city insurance route.