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Consumer advocates again criticized the National Association of Insurance Commissioners for dragging its feet on credit scoring while attending quickly to issues of concern to the insurance industry.

The nation's insurance regulators ended their latest look at the use of consumer credit records as an underwriting factor by declaring they need more information.

Contrary to what insurers have been saying, the recession has had a nationwide negative impact on credit scores, regulators meeting here were told by a consumer advocate.

The National Conference of Insurance Legislators has amended its model credit scoring legislation to require that insurers give a break to people hit by extraordinary events such as job loss and serious illness.

The nation's insurance regulators criticized respondents for not being specific or forthcoming enough with their answers.

The nation's insurance regulators have pressed insurance trade organizations for specifics on how use of credit in determining rates affects certain groups of people, and criticized the answers for not being specific enough.

A bill that would have banned credit scoring in Connecticut was altered and then died in the Senate at the end of a legislative session characterized as "challenging" by one insurance industry representative.

Credit scoring supporters and detractors were making their arguments at a hearing today before the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.