Commitments and Contingencies

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2022

Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]

Commitments and Contingencies

Note 5—Commitments and ContingenciesGuarantees: The Parent Company has guaranteed letters of credit in connection with its credit facility with a group of banks. The letters of credit were issued by TMK Re, Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary, to secure TMK Re, Ltd.’s obligation for claims on certain policies reinsured by TMK Re, Ltd. that were sold by other Globe Life insurance subsidiaries. These letters of credit facilitate TMK Re, Ltd.’s ability to reinsure the business of Globe Life's insurance carriers. The agreement was amended on September 30, 2021 and now expires in 2026. The maximum amount of letters of credit available is $250 million. The Parent Company would be liable to the extent that TMK Re, Ltd. does not pay the reinsured party. The amount outstanding at June 30, 2022 was $125 million.

Litigation: Globe Life Inc. (formerly Torchmark Corporation) and its subsidiaries, in common with the insurance industry in general, are subject to litigation, including putative class action litigation, alleged breaches of contract, torts, including bad faith and fraud claims based on alleged wrongful or fraudulent acts of agents of the Parent Company's insurance subsidiaries, employment discrimination, worker misclassification, and miscellaneous other causes of action. Based upon information presently available, and in light of legal and other factual defenses available to the Parent Company and its subsidiaries, management does not believe that it is reasonably possible that such litigation will have a material adverse effect on Globe Life's financial condition, future operating results or liquidity; however, assessing the eventual outcome of litigation necessarily involves forward-looking speculation as to judgments to be made by judges, juries and appellate courts in the future. This bespeaks caution, particularly in states with reputations for high punitive damage verdicts. Globe Life's management recognizes that large punitive damage awards bearing little or no relation to actual damages continue to be awarded by juries in jurisdictions in which the Parent Company's insurance subsidiaries have substantial business, creating the potential for unpredictable material adverse judgments in any given punitive damage suit.

On July 22, 2022, putative class and collective action litigation was filed against Arias Agencies and American Income Life Insurance Company (“American Income”) (collectively, “Defendants”) in United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (David Burkes v. Arias Agencies and American Income Life Insurance Company, Case No. 2:22-cv-1054). The complaint alleges that insurance agent trainees should have been classified as employees, and after contracting should have been classified as employees instead of independent contractors. Plaintiff David Burkes is a former Pennsylvania independent sales agent and asserts claims under Pennsylvania law on behalf of a putative class of all individuals who trained to become and/or worked as sales agents for American Income in the three years prior to July 22, 2022 through case conclusion. Burkes makes claims (a) under the Pennsylvania Minimum Wage Act and the Pennsylvania Wage Payment and Collection Law for the alleged failure to pay minimum wage, alleged failure to pay for time spent in training, alleged failure to pay for missed meals and rest breaks, allegedly requiring putative class members to pay for work-related expenses, and allegedly subjecting putative class members to “chargebacks”; (b) for unjust enrichment for allegedly benefiting from the uncompensated labor of putative class members; and (c) for the rescission of putative class members’ agent contracts. Burkes also asserts a collective action on behalf of the same group of individuals for minimum wage, overtime, liquidated damages, and attorney’s fees and costs under the Fair Labor Standards Act for the three years prior to July 22, 2022 through case conclusion, as well as a claim that American Income allegedly did not keep accurate records of hours worked by sales agents. American Income intends to vigorously dispute the individual and class and collective claims, including enforcing the class action waiver and right to individual arbitration found in agent contracts, which has been recognized by other federal courts in Pennsylvania.