Letter: HB2323 would end insurance company discriminatory profiling of dogs

#Arizona House Bill 2323 is making its way through the state legislature. It deserves to be signed into #law.

This amendment to Arizona Revised Statutes Title 20 strips dog breed discriminatory profiling used by insurance companies to hit policyholders and policy seekers with higher rates and worse, result in homeowners or renters stripped of insurance in a tight, expensive housing market.

As American Property Casualty Insurance Association and the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce lobby against this responsible legislation, I ask readers to consider being the Phoenix couple who recently had their homeowner’s insurance canceled by Hartford Financial simply for adopting Echo, a sweet “pit bull,” into their family as a companion to their Australian Shepherd.

#Pitbull is not a breed, and without DNA testing no dogs can be accurately identified. Yet insurance companies are hiking rates and kicking people off policies through indiscriminate, unjustified targeting of family dogs. Insurance companies would be better served advocating against those mistreating animals and engaging in #dogfighting. (Don Scott published letter to the editor, Arizona Daily Star)