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Date Added: August 25, 2008 07:48:04 PM

Insurance companies in Michigan no longer will be able to use customers' credit scores to set home and auto insurance premiums if a state Court of Appeals ruling stands. Reform advocates are happy, arguing that credit scoring is another way insurance companies discriminate against urban policy holders.

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