In a story published today, I report on racism at NYSE-traded Globe Life Inc. 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…)

Women at Arias Organization, a top life insurance agency based in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, say they were fed date rape drugs, compared to dog puke, and forced to watch a boss masturbate. I worked for months on this project for Insider.com, ever-more incredulous as each reporting week went by. I have written about gender discrimination for nearly 30 years. This, by far, is the worst treatment of women in the workplace that I’ve ever seen.

Arias is a star agency under the umbrella of Globe Life Inc., a New York Stock Exchange-traded company that is in the portfolio of Warren Buffett. The agency is known by several names, including Arias Agencies, the Arias Organization and Globe Life American Income Division: Arias Organization. You can read my story here.