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Attorney: Leadership change needed
By Dan McCue
Staff Writer
The situation surrounding the state Insurance Reserve Fund underscores why the leadership of South Carolina is in serious need of an overhaul, says an attorney advising a group that seeks governmental reform.
Attorney Kevin Munson, in the Greenville office of Womble Carlyle, is counsel to ChangeSCNow, a grassroots group that has filed a lawsuit, currently pending in the S.C. Supreme Court, seeking to have the Budget and Control Board declared unconstitutional.
According to Munson, the board’s practice of merely rolling over the same non-competitive insurance contract for 25 years “confirms that the constitutional challenge by ChangeSCNow is not just an ivory-tower academic exercise.
“You have to ask yourself, if the Budget and Control Board rolls over non-competitive contracts for 25 years, how many mimeograph machines and camera flash bulbs do we have stockpiled in Columbia somewhere?” he said.
Munson characterized the “excuse” that other states have had trouble getting property reinsurance as “hardly persuasive.”
“South Carolina has some very sophisticated insurance brokerage consultants, such as Marsh USA, here in Greenville,” he said. “If (the state) were truly concerned about that, but still willing to have an open and truly competitive process, the Budget and Control Board could have gotten an option from Bob Kneece’s firm (Thomas C. Brown Agency) and then invited the other insurance brokerage consulting companies to put together a better proposal.”
Dan McCue is a staff writer for the Business Journal. E-mail him at dmccue@setcommedia.com.
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