Root to drop credit score from underwriting criteria by 2025
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Root to drop credit score from underwriting criteria by 2025

Bernard Goyder
August 07, 2020
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Auto insurer Root has revealed plans to eliminate a driver’s credit score from its premium rate calculation in the next five years, arguing that the financial metric reinforces “inherent bias and systemic discrimination”.

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