The Rhode Island House has approved a bill that would ban a car insurance company from raising a person’s rates once they become a widow. State Rep Arthur Handy says he filed the bill after learning of the issue when his wife died.
“Marital status is one of many, many factors insurance companies weigh when they decide what their risk is to insure a driver. But a person doesn’t become a bigger risk simply as a result of losing their spouse. Besides being unnecessary, it’s hurtful to people who have lost their spouse to say that it somehow makes them riskier to insure,” said Representative Handy.
The bill now will go to the state senate.
(Photo Credit: Representative Arthur Handy's Office)