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July 23, 2020 at 01:24 PM
Globe Life has become the first major, publicly traded life insurer to report earnings for the COVID-19-shadowed second quarter, and it posted a profit.
The McKinney, Texas-based company announced Wednesday that it earned $173 million for the quarter on $1.2 billion in revenue, compared with $187 million in net income on $1.3 billion in revenue for the second quarter of 2019.
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Globe Life managed to earn more than $100 million even after COVID-19 forced it to shift most of its employees and agents to working at home, and even after the agents had to shift to selling coverage mainly through telephone- and web-based arrangements, rather than through in-person meetings.
“While the current environment continues to present challenges, Globe Life’s operations are being conducted successfully,” the company said in a comment on its performance that was included in the earnings announcement. “We continue to support our agents and serve our customers in an effective manner.”
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The company focuses mainly on selling life insurance, supplemental health insurance products and Medicare plans to middle-income consumers.
New health insurance sales fell 23% between the second quarter of 2019 and the latest quarter, to $34 million, but life insurance sales increased 7%, to $64 million, and life insurance renewal lapse rates were down.
At the company’s American Income Life division, for example, the renewal year lapse rate fell to 1.95%, from 2.1% for the second quarter of 2019.
