2017 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 38 - Insurance
CHAPTER 57 - TRADE PRACTICES
Section 38-57-180. Insurance cost must be specified in sales and loans.
Where the premium or charge for insurance is included in the overall purchase price or financing of the purchase of merchandise or property, the vendor or lender shall separately state and identify the amount charged and to be paid for the insurance and the classifications if any, upon which based. The inclusion or exclusion of the cost of insurance in the purchase price or financing may not increase, reduce, or otherwise affect any other factor involved in the cost of the merchandise or property or financing as to the purchaser or borrower.
HISTORY: Former 1976 Code Section 38-57-180 [1947 (45) 322; 1952 Code Section 37-1166; 1962 Code Section 37-1166; 1978 Act No. 585 Section 16] recodified as Section 23-9-430 by 1987 Act No. 155, Section 1; Former 1976 Code Section 38-55-180 [1962 Code Section 37-1218; 1964 (53) 2293] recodified as Section 38-57-180 by 1987 Act No. 155, Section 1.
