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Article: Employers more at ease with partner benefits: expert. (domestic partner issues expert Thomas Coleman)
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- Business Insurance
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- September 22, 1997
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ATLANTA - Employers are becoming more comfortable offering domestic partner benefits and are realizing it's not as big a financial concern as once feared, according to a legal expert on domestic partner issues.
Employers first "dribbled onto domestic partnership benefits" that first appeared in the early 1980s, then "jumped on the bandwagon, and now it's a train steaming down the line and gathering momentum year after year," said Thomas F. Coleman, an attorney and executive director of the Spectrum Institute, a Los Angeles-based organization that works to overturn laws and business practices that discriminate against unmarried people.
Mr. Coleman, speaking at ...