Happy Holidays: 18,000 Delawareans Have Their Medical Debt Eliminated December 22, 2025 Delaware Governor Matt Meyer reported results of Delaware’s medical debt elimination initiative, with nearly $19 million in medical debt abolished...
Equifax May Face Class-Action Suit After Credit-Score Glitch August 5, 2022 By Erik Larson Equifax Inc., the second-biggest global credit bureau, was hit with a proposed class-action lawsuit after a report that it provided...
Equifax Says Consumer Credit Scores Changed in Computer Error August 4, 2022 Equifax Inc. said some consumer credit scores were changed because of a computer error that has since been rectified. A...
What Property and Casualty Insurers Need to Know About Using Credit in Underwriting August 10, 2021 By TransUnion This post is part of a series sponsored by TransUnion. Credit-based insurance risk scores draw from credit data to more...
Fed Warns Credit Scores ‘May Lose Some Power’ After Covid May 20, 2021 By Jenny Surane The Federal Reserve Bank of New York warned that credit scores — the all-powerful number that can determine if a...
Washington Insurance Commissioner-Backed Bill to Ban Use of Credit Scores Amended February 19, 2021 A Washington bill to ban insurers from using consumers’ credit scores to determine auto and homeowner insurance premiums was gutted...
Root Insurance Hopes Others Join Its Vow to End Use of Credit Scoring August 18, 2020 By Mark Hollmer Root Insurance pledged to eliminate the use of credit scoring from its car insurance pricing model by 2025, a move...
New Rules in Place in Michigan for Insurer Use of Credit Information March 29, 2013 A series of new laws have taken effect in Michigan that how insurance companies can use a person’s credit information....
Mass. Agents Gathering Signatures for Insurance Credit Score Ban October 6, 2011 By Young Ha A Massachusetts independent agents group said it is confident that banning auto insurers’ use of credit scores and other socioeconomic...
Top 5 Economic Changes by Consumers That Affect Their Car Insurance June 7, 2011 From changing jobs to moving to a different house to downsizing vehicles, Americans have made decisions during the recent economic...