Why insurance is allowed to discriminate, what a proxy is, and why a credit score can move a car insurance premium.
Insurance works by sorting people into groups and charging them differently. The argument is never whether it discriminates, but which distinctions it may use.
A proxy is a factor that is legal, defensible as predictive, and correlated with one that is not legal to use.
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