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Leaders at Globe Life division traded racist memes

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. Continue reading →

Globe Life’s stock crashed amid federal probes. Here’s everything you need to know

Here’s an update on developments with Globe Life, its subsidiary American Income Life, and Globe’s star agency The Arias Organization.

Short-seller sends Globe Life shares plunging 53% as insurance giant calls report ‘defamatory,’ threatens legal action

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. Continue reading →

EEOC takes up sexual harassment cases against Globe Life subsidiary

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. Continue reading →

Regulators open probes, Warren Buffett dumps stock as claims of abuse and fraud mount vs a top Globe Life agency

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.

Susan Antilla