For the fourth consecutive year, Sedgwick has earned a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s (HRC) Corporate Equality Index (CEI). The 2012 edition of the CEI, which was released on December 7, 2011, rated 636 businesses on a scale from 0 to 100 percent on their treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) employees, consumers and investors. Sedgwick is one of 190 businesses that earned a perfect score, down from 335 businesses in 2011.
The drop in the number of companies that earned a perfect score is due in large part to additional criteria added to the 2012 evaluation process. To achieve a 100 percent ranking, companies are now required to provide gender transition health benefits and domestic partner tax equalization benefits, both of which Sedgwick offers.
Sedgwick’s LGBT Action Committee is one of the firm’s five affinity groups that offer targeted mentoring, communication and advocacy on behalf of diverse attorneys. Members of Sedgwick’s LGBT Action Committee serve as leaders, speakers and members of a wide range of LGBT organizations, including Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, the National LGBT Bar Association, the American Bar Association’s Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, and the Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom. Sedgwick’s other affinity groups address the needs of African American, Asian American, Hispanic American and women attorneys.