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Insurance credit scores in Michigan

From the Michigan Supreme Court:  “The Court will also hear oral arguments in Insurance Institute of Michigan v Insurance Commissioner, in which the plaintiffs, a group that includes insurance companies and individual customers, challenge administrative rules aimed at prohibiting insurance scoring, the practice of using consumer credit report scores to set personal insurance rates.”
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Average, credit score, Better Business Bureau (BBB)

See Fake-O FICO Funk.

Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:25:33 -0400
To: Sharane Gott <sharane@acadiana.bbb.org>
From: “creditscoring.com” <greg@creditscoring.com>
Subject: credit score, average
You wrote, “Average FICO scores for U.S. consumers are around 690.”
Who is your source for that figure?