The Nation - News from Oct. 2, 1985
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The nation’s first comprehensive “unisex” insurance law went into effect in Montana, prohibiting companies from using gender or marital status to set premium rates and policy benefits. The state’s unique insurance law was enacted in 1983 after complaints by women that different premium rates for men and women, based on statistical records comparing the two groups’ risk of loss, were discriminatory.
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