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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 33. INSURANCE · Chapter 24. INSURANCE GENERALLY · Article 4. UNDERWRITING AND RATE RISKING

33-24-93. Disclosure by insurer of use of credit information.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. (a)

    If an insurer writing personal insurance uses credit information in underwriting or rating a consumer, the insurer or its agent shall disclose, either on the insurance application or at the time the insurance application is taken, that it may obtain credit information in connection with such application. Such disclosure shall be either written or provided to an applicant in the same medium as the application for insurance. The insurer need not provide the disclosure statement required under this Code section to any insured on a renewal policy, if such consumer has previously been provided a disclosure statement.#

  2. (b)

    The disclosure required by this Code section shall be in substantially the following form: ‘‘In connection with this application for insurance, we may review your credit report or obtain or use a credit based insurance score based on the information contained in that credit report. We may use a third party in connection with the development of your insurance score.’’#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 33-24-93, enacted by Ga. L. 2003, p. 343, § 1.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t33-ch23-65-(v25)-2020-pdf.pdf, Volume V25, 2020 edition, pages 401 to 402; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 1cdfeaa4b73e.