The Arkansas insurance regulator said her department will join with 12 other states to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a lower court's ruling on the use of credit scores by insurers.
Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Julie Benafield Bowman said her state was joining other departments in their "friend of the court" brief. The brief asks the Supreme Court to uphold a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that GEICO and Safeco willfully violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act by not properly notifying consumers when their credit score negatively affected their auto insurance rates. (See NU, Jan. 1, page 11.)
Ms. Bowman said all consumers should know if their auto insurance rates are increased because of something in their credit score.
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