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E.__"Consumer reporting agency" has the same meaning as in | Title 10, section 1312, subsection 4. |
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| F. "Credit information" means any credit-related information | derived from a consumer report, found on a consumer report | itself or provided on an application for personal insurance.__ | "Credit information" does not include information that is | not credit-related regardless of whether it is contained in | a credit report or application or used to calculate an | insurance score. |
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| G.__"Insurance score" means a number or rating that is | derived from an algorithm, computer application, model or | other process that is based in whole or in part on credit | information for the purposes of predicting the future loss | exposure of an individual applicant or insured. |
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| H. "Personal insurance" means private passenger automobile, | homeowners, motorcycle, mobile home owners and noncommercial | dwelling fire insurance policies and boat, personal | watercraft, snowmobile and recreational vehicle policies | that are individually underwritten for personal, family or | household use. |
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| | 2.__Use of consumer reports.__Notwithstanding this subsection, | an insurer may use a consumer report as permitted under the Fair | Credit Reporting Act pursuant to Title 10, chapter 210 and 15 | United States Code, Chapter 41.__An insurer may use information | obtained from a consumer reporting agency to calculate an | insurance score for underwriting and rating purposes, except that | an insurer may not: |
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| A.__Use an insurance score that is calculated using income, | gender, address, zip code, ethnic group, religion, marital | status or nationality of a consumer as a factor; |
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| B.__Deny, cancel or refuse to renew a policy of personal | insurance solely on the basis of credit information without | consideration of any other applicable underwriting factor | independent of credit information and not expressly | prohibited by paragraph A; |
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| C.__Base an insured's renewal rates for personal insurance | solely upon credit information, without consideration of any | other applicable factor independent of credit information; |
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| D.__Take an adverse action against a consumer solely because that | consumer does not have a credit card account, without |
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