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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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