The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has found that insurer Globe Life tolerated a “pervasive pattern of harassing conduct” against women at one of its top-producing sales agencies, including harassment by men who were so high up in the company that “they constitute alter egos or proxies” of Globe and one of its major divisions, American Income Life.

I first wrote about Globe in early 2023, exposing sexual assault, violence and customer abuses at its Pittsburgh-based Arias Agencies. The EEOC by that time had actually dismissed the cases of the two women who inspired my initial coverage — Renee Zinsky and Abeni Mayfield. But after my stories began appearing, the agency took the unusual step of reversing its decisions to dismiss those cases and launched into a broad probe of the agency, AIL and Globe.

Today’s story is based on private correspondence that the EEOC sent to Globe’s lawyers and six insurance agents who worked at Globe agencies. Citing those letters, I broke news of the EEOC’s stunning determination that, for 13 years, Globe had subjected a class of female employees to an ongoing hostile work environment and quid pro quo harassment. EEOC Says Globe Life Created, Condoned a Workplace That Is Abusive to Women – Business Insider

In a story published today, I report on egregious racism at NYSE-traded Globe Life Inc. — behavior that stretches from company headquarters in McKinney, Texas to the far-flung agencies that come under Globe’s umbrella.

A Latina woman told me her colleagues regularly used the N-word. A black woman said her manager sent her a meme that used a racial slur to suggest Black people were “looking harder for them Popeye’s Chicken Sandwiches than a Job.”

Even senior managers at Globe Life’s American Income Life subsidiary engaged in stunning acts of bias, exchanging racist, sexist and anti-transgender texts. (more…)

Shares of insurance giant Globe Life Inc. plunged 53% today and trading was halted eight times after a short-seller issued a damning narrative on the company.

In a 36-page investigative report, Fuzzy Panda Research described “extensive allegations of insurance fraud” at Globe’s wholly-owned subsidiary American Income Life, repeatedly citing my coverage for Business Insider. (more…)

The U.S. Department of Justice has subpoenaed Globe Life Inc. and its subsidiary American Income Life seeking documents related to one of its top life insurance agencies — the Pittsburgh-based Arias Organization, according to an internal Globe document. In my Business Insider articles published in 2023, former agents described a culture at Arias of customer abuses and sexual harassment, including multiple allegations of sexual assault on the job. (more…)

Ten months after my first article about the toxic and dangerous workplace at The Arias Organization, a top life insurance agency of Globe Life, Inc., the EEOC took the unusual step of reopening two sexual harassment claims that it had previously dismissed and a Pennsylvania regulator fined a Globe subsidiary for deceptive consumer practices.

In my series of investigations about Globe, its wholly owned subsidiary American Income Life and Arias, I’ve been documenting a toxic workplace where multiple agents said women were sexually harassed and assaulted, drugs were used openly and customer deceit was widespread. (more…)

In the months since Insider published my investigation into alleged sexual assault, drug use, and customer abuses at a major insurance agency based in Wexford, Pa., insurance regulators showed up unannounced at the company’s headquarters and Warren Buffett has dumped more than half of his investment in the agency’s parent — Globe Life. Here’s a link to my story today.

I was recently interviewed by Mark Carey about my reporting on Renee Zinsky’s sexual harassment case and its ramifications. You can listen to the podcast here.

Two weeks after Insider.com published my story about sexual assault, drug use and violence at a top insurance agency of Globe Life American Income Division, the story has been cited in multiple court filings in a civil suit. A spokesperson for the Texas Rangers, the Major League Baseball team that plays on Globe Life Field, said the Rangers are “aware” of the allegations against Globe’s Arias Organization. The Feb. 24 story depicted a toxic workplace at Arias Organization, based in Wexford, Pennsylvania. (more…)