New Jersey State Senator Nia H. Gill, Esq. wants to know if GEICO is profiling her constituents. Determined to find out Gill filed an Open Public Records Act (OPRA) Request with the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance (DOBI) seeking the records GEICO provided to the State in order to be allowed to market insurance policies.
DOBI provided limited access to Gill citing the proprietary nature of some of the records. Unsatisfied Gill filed a complaint with the Government Records Council. GEICO doesn’t want the records shared, citing:
GEICO’s assistant vice president said that if the information were made public, GEICO’s competitors would “receive an unfair, free windfall because it (would) save them millions of dollars over several years to develop their own rating systems.”
GEICO moved to intervene in the case. Their motion to intervene, however, was denied by the Government Records Council. That decision was overturned by the appeals court, which called the records council’s ruling “arbitrary and unreasonable.”
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