Post by Logan on Jan 30, 2016 2:35:36 GMT -6
COLUMBIA ─ While senators debate how best to pay for needed road repairs, the State Insurance Reserve Fund is paying millions of dollars each year in claims for damage caused by bad roads.
In fact, over a six year period, the Insurance Reserve Fund, which acts as the insurance carrier for state and other government agencies, paid more than $30 million to resolve claims against the state Department of Transportation, mostly over alleged road defects.
That's according to a list of DOT claims produced as a result of a state Freedom of Information Act request and subsequent lawsuit filed by Greenville businessman Edward Sloan, obtained by The Greenville News.
The 32-page list covers claims resolved between Jan. 1. 2005 and December 17, 2010, though some of the incidents that spawned the claims stretch into the 1990s.
Read more: www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/politics/2016/01/29/state-has-paid-30-million-dot-claims-6-years/79507404/
In fact, over a six year period, the Insurance Reserve Fund, which acts as the insurance carrier for state and other government agencies, paid more than $30 million to resolve claims against the state Department of Transportation, mostly over alleged road defects.
That's according to a list of DOT claims produced as a result of a state Freedom of Information Act request and subsequent lawsuit filed by Greenville businessman Edward Sloan, obtained by The Greenville News.
The 32-page list covers claims resolved between Jan. 1. 2005 and December 17, 2010, though some of the incidents that spawned the claims stretch into the 1990s.
Read more: www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/politics/2016/01/29/state-has-paid-30-million-dot-claims-6-years/79507404/