Tag Archives: American Income Life

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 →

Fresh customer-fraud allegations against Globe Life

The embattled insurer Globe Life and its subsidiary American Income Life face new allegations of fraud, kickbacks, and misclassifying its army of sales agents. The charges appear in a new report from Viceroy Research, the third scathing short-seller report on Globe. It comes on the heels of short-sale recommendations by Orso Partners’ Nate Koppikar and the anonymous trader Fuzzy Panda earlier this year. Globe said the Viceroy report is “deliberately false, misleading and defamatory.” You can read today’s story here.

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 →

Department of Justice opens probe of Globe Life, American Income Life

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. 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 →

Fallout for Globe Life, Arias Organization, after Insider.com article

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. Continue reading →