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Despite the serious economic downturn, some 305 businesses – including a number of insurers – have earned the top rating in the 2010 edition of the annual Corporate Equality Index published by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRC). The Index rates employers on a scale from 0 to 100 percent based on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) workplace policies and benefits. Ratings are based on factors including nondiscrimination policies, diversity training, and healthcare partner benefits. As an industry, insurance scored an average 88 percent rating this year. We tip our hat to Pacific Life Insurance Co and TIAA-CREF for receiving the 100 percent rating for the first time. Other insurers receiving the 100 percent rating include: Allianz Life, Allstate, Chubb, CNA, Esurance, The Hartford, MetLife, Nationwide, New York Life Insurance Co, and Progressive. Aon, Deloitte and Marsh & McLennan were among other insurance-related businesses to earn the top rating. […]

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June is Pride month and this year marks the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, widely recognized as a milestone in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights movement. Here’s a round-up of some of the latest news and developments affecting the LGBT community that may be of interest:
·         Same sex marriage has now been legalized in six states (three via a court ruling, three via the legislature): Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire. A same-sex marriage bill has also passed the New York State Assembly, but has yet to progress in the Senate. In California, the state Supreme Court has upheld the validity of some 18,000 same sex marriages that took place in 2008 but same sex marriage is no longer legal in the state after passage of a constitutional amendment that was upheld by the court. It’s important to recognize that state laws do not […]

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