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