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New Rhode Island law bars auto insurers from hiking rates on the widowed

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A new Rhode Island law prohibits auto insurers from charging policyholders more solely because they have been widowed. Democratic Gov. Dan McKee signed the bill into law on Friday. It bans insurers from treating widows or widowers any differently than married people in terms of classification or rates beginning with policies issued after Jan.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A new Rhode Island law prohibits auto insurers from charging policyholders more solely because they have been widowed.

Democratic Rep. Arthur Handy, a co-sponsor of the bill, said he learned of the change in rates after his wife, Tish DiPrete, died in 2021. Handy said marital status is one of many factors companies weigh when they decide what their risk is to insure a driver.

 

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