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INSURERS UNDER FIRE FOR USING EDUCATION, OCCUPATION AND CREDIT SCORING IN SETTING RATES
 
STATE SUPREME COURT, AND LEGISLATURE SET TO TAKE ON UNFAIR PRACTICE
 
MICHIGAN SUPREME COURT
 
GRAND RAPIDS PRESS COMES OUT AGAINST CREDIT SCORING:
"The practice is wrong at anytime, but especially now. In a climate of soaring unemployment and resulting unpaid bills it unfairly discriminates against residents whose only crime is the misfortune of working for a company swept away in the economic tsunami."
 
 
REPUBLICANS, DEMOCRATS, LABOR LEADERS AND CITIZENS
JOIN ADVOCATE IN PRESS CONFERENCE AT MICHIGAN
HALL OF JUSTICE TO URGE SUPREME COURT TO END CREDIT SCORING
 
CLICK HERE TO WATCH PRESS CONFERENCE
 
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ADVOCATE'S REMARKS /  MEDIA  /  FACT SHEET  /  FREE PRESS OP ED  /  PHOTOS
 
  
ADVOCATE TESTIFIES BEFORE
HOUSE INSURANCE COMMITTEE
ON AUTO INSURANCE REFORM 

 

   

              Rep. Barb Byrum
Chair, House Insurance Committee

     Melvin Butch Hollowell
Insurance Consumer Advocate

 
CLICK HERE TO WATCH HEARING   
SHOCKING WALL STREET JOURNAL REPORT:
1/3 OF MICHIGAN DRIVERS UNINSURED 
 MICHIGAN CONSUMERS DRIVING BETTER:
INSURERS KEEP RAISING RATES
RAY LAHOOD
US SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION

97.2% SEAT BELT USE HIGHEST IN US    /  54% DECREASE IN STATES SERIOUS AUTO ACCIDENTS    /  1.37 TRAFFIC DEATHS PER MILLION VEHICLE MILES, LOWEST EVER RECORDED    /  ACCIDENTS INVOLVING MICHIGAN SENIORS AT LOWEST LEVEL SINCE 1960'S

 
Governor Granholm giving State of the State Adress




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