You're either for them or against them — pit bulls, that is.
A lawsuit has been filed in federal court in Oregon claiming that people with disabilities shouldn't be turned down for homeowners insurance because they have pit bulls for service dogs, reports KOB4.
According to the suit, undercover testers from the Fair Housing Council of Oregon made four unsuccessful calls last year to Travelers and to a Portland agency, Lloyd Purdy & Co., telling them they had disabilities and used pit bulls for "assistance animals." The insurer wouldn't give the testers a price quote, even for animals a doctor had approved or that had no history of aggression, reports KOB4.
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