Travelers

New York
Insurance

Risk Level:

Rating - Caution
Medium Risk

Summary:

The Travelers Companies, Inc., commonly known as Travelers, is an American insurance company. Travelers lacks viewpoint protections for employees and will not reliably support faith-based charities the way it does secular charities. It also claims to vet vendors for pro-LGBTQ policies. However, in practice, the company has not terminated any business relationships based on viewpoints or used its corporate position to advance ideological agendas. It has not demonstrated a likelihood of canceling clients for their beliefs. However, Travelers has donated to the National Urban League (NUL). For these reasons, Travelers receives a "Medium Risk" rating.

Criteria
Risk Level
Rationale
Corporate Weaponization
Criteria

Has denied service to customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.

Risk Level
Rationale

Travelers has not publicly terminated business relationships due to religious beliefs or political views. The company received a score of 100 on the Corporate Equality Index from the Human Rights Campaign. Among other requirements, this means Travelers has pledged to vet vendors based on LGBTQ policies (1).

Criteria

Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.

Risk Level
Rationale

Travelers will not donate to “religious organizations, unless it can be shown that the organization is seeking charitable funds in the direct interest of the whole community” (1).

Criteria

Employment policies fail to protect against discrimination based on political affiliation/views and/or religion.

Risk Level
Rationale

Travelers does not protect its employees from viewpoint discrimination (1).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy
Criteria

Uses corporate reputation to support ideological causes and/or organizations hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level
Rationale

There are no publicly known cases of Travelers using its corporate reputation to advance an ideological agenda (1).

Criteria

Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level
Rationale

According to the most recent available tax filing, Travelers’ charitable foundation does not donate to any ideological groups hostile to freedom of expression (1). However, Travelers has directly donated corporately to the National Urban League (2)(3).

Criteria

Uses corporate political contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.

Risk Level
Rationale

Travelers donates in a bipartisan manner without ideological prejudice (1).

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March 30, 2023

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