NU Online News Service, May 31, 3:28 p.m. EDT
Credit scoring using completely race-neutral factors is permitted under Texas law even if it has an unintended impact on minorities, the state's Supreme Court ruled late last week.
On Friday, the court ruled in an 8-0 decision in the case Ojo v. Farmers Group et al (No. 10-0245) that the state's law "does not prohibit an insurer from using race-neutral factors in credit-scoring to price insurance, even if doing so creates a racially disparate impact."
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