We’ve just finished taking the measure of how we stack on our various corporate social responsibility initiatives.
The results, which are being published today, show that our Do Good efforts continue apace.
As Chairman, CEO and President Mehran Assadi reports in a letter opening the report:
“For us, corporate responsibility isn’t a series of statistics about how much fuel oil we burn to heart our building or how much water we save with efficient fixtures. Those are important and you’ll find them here. But what is central to us is to live our values every day, in every transaction and in every interaction.”
As Mehran says, the new report has details on our carbon emissions, electric vehicle charging stations and the like.
This year, it also includes a report on some of the responsible ways we invest our portfolio, including in affordable housing, solar power and wind power.
We also detail why we are so careful in investing our assets: to keep our promises made decades ago to thousands of people when they purchased a policy from us. In just the past half-decade, more than 2,300 claims that were paid were on policies issues more than 50 years ago.
“Those are people who have trusted us for more than 50 years,” said Ann Rangaviz, AVP for Claims. “And we are keeping those promises.”
That’s how we’re judging ourselves in this report: against the high standards we already set for ourselves.