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Doing the right things to earn your trust and loyalty

Doing the right things is in our DNA. It's integrated within our business Vision and Core Values.

Being a business people trust, rely on and are proud to be affiliated with is the best thing we can do to fulfill our social responsibility goals.

Whether you're a customer, agent, investor, employee, partner or site visitor, we work to earn and keep your faith in us each and every day based on what we do and how we do it.

Here are a few of our efforts in 2010 to live up to your expectations.

  • InformationWeek magazine named us to its annual list of the country’s most forward-thinking users of business technology, the InformationWeek 500. This is the 11th year we’ve received this recognition.
  • The Austin American-Statesman named us to its Top Workplaces in Austin list, based on anonymous employee surveys from area employers.
  • Military Times EDGE magazine named us to its Best for Vets list. We were ranked based on four criteria: military recruiting, recruiting, training/mentoring, reserve policies and corporate culture.
  • The Advocate, the longest-running publication for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community in the country, named us to its list of the top 25 U.S. companies when it comes to LGBT issues.
  • We maintained a 100 percent Corporate Equality Index score from The Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the largest LGBT advocacy group in the U.S.
  • The St. Petersburg Times ranked Progressive as one of the Top Workplaces in Tampa Bay. It based rankings on employee responses to a survey on what makes an organization a great place to work.
  • We moved up 48 spots to number 161 in the 2010 Fortune 500, which ranks America’s largest corporations based on total revenues. We’ve made the list every year since 1995.
  • G.I. Jobs magazine named us one of the nation's Top 100 Military Friendly Employers based on such criteria as military hiring practices, benefits and differential military pay policies, hiring and training programs for veterans, and military recruitment. We’ve received this recognition two years in a row.
  • Experience, Inc. chose us for its Best Places to Work for Recent Grads list. We were one of only 20 companies chosen based on exceptional entry-level hiring and retention practices, benefits, training programs, growth opportunities and average starting salaries.
  • CIO Magazine named us to its CIO 100 list for our ability to easily expand our products and services to our customers. This was the second year in a row we’ve received this recognition.
  • The Cleveland Plain Dealer ranked us as one of the top workplaces in northeast Ohio.
  • We released our 2010 Report on Loss Reserving Practices in the Investor Relations section of progressive.com. The report explains how we use claims data, industry projections and other factors to determine how much money to set aside for paying claims.
  • J.D. Power ranked us 13th in its National Auto Insurance Study, in which car insurance customers rate satisfaction with their insurance companies. They also surveyed independent property/casualty insurance agencies and showed that we are highly regarded by our agents as well. Our 2010 ranking represents a jump of five spots compared to 2009.
  • LATINA Style magazine, a leading publication for contemporary Hispanic women, named us to the LATINA Style 50, its annual list of the 50 best U.S. companies for Hispanic women. The list is based on available leadership programs, employee benefits, and Latina representation in senior positions.
  • Keynote Competitive Research ranked us as the number one insurance website for the sixth year running, calling Progressive one of the most innovative insurance companies for user experience and online quoting process. We held this spot for 16 of the last 17 scorecard rankings published since 2000.
  • In 2010, employees countrywide participated in online workplace safety/violence training.
  • We distributed an extraordinary dividend of $1 per Common Share on Dec. 29, 2010 to all shareholders of record on Dec. 20, 2010 to share profits with those who invest in us.