In the wake of a public hearing, the Connecticut legislature is working on changes in a controversial bill that would ban insurer use of consumer credit scores in underwriting auto policies, a key legislator said.

State Rep. Steve Fontana, D-North Haven, co-chair of the Committee on Insurance and Real Estate, said via e-mail that his committee has "authored the bill based on its own ideas and those presented to it by the Attorney General [Richard Blumenthal] and other members of the General Assembly. We will continue to work on the bill to revise and refine our ideas based on further input from the general public."

Mr. Fontana gave no timetable for further action on the bill.

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