How woke is Progressive?

Progressive CEO Tricia Griffith found herself forced defend the business’s approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) in hiring practices after being targeted by an activist shareholder at the firm’s annual shareholder meeting in Mayfield Village, Ohio.

From June 2022, Progressive Insurance is Progressive, the company put a diversity and inclusion banner across its home page, dwarfing the “claims” button: They still have a Diversity & Inclusion link, but you need to scroll down two pages to find it. Unlike in 2022, the linked-to page makes no mention of 2SLGBTQQIA+ or any subset thereof.

“Black Lives Matter to me and they matter to us as an organization,” Progressive Corp. CEO Tricia Griffith wrote in a letter to shareholders. In the letter that was mostly commentary on second quarter results, Griffith vowed to increase her own company’s efforts to improve inclusion and diversity and to also encourage other business leaders to do more as well in her capacity as a member of the Business Roundtable subcommittee in racial equity and justice.

The Human Rights Campaign is calling on Anheuser-Busch, the owner of the Bud Light brand, to publicly reaffirm its support for the transgender community in response to pushback from conservatives after the company partnered with transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney.

The home insurance problems facing Florida took another hit on Friday following the news that Progressive won't be renewing about 100,000 policies.

Two major insurance companies terminated their relationships with a Maine insurance agency after it allegedly displayed a racist sign about the Juneteenth holiday earlier this week.