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Torchmark Corporation Declares Dividend

    BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Feb. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Torchmark Corporation
(NYSE: TMK) announced today that at its February 22, 2006, meeting, the
Torchmark Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend of $.11 per share
on all of the outstanding common stock of the Company held of record as of the
close of business of the Company's transfer agent on April 7, 2006.  The
dividend will be paid on May 1, 2006.
    Torchmark Corporation is a holding company specializing in life and
supplemental health insurance for "middle income" Americans marketed through
multiple distribution channels including direct response, and exclusive and
independent agencies.  Torchmark has several nationally recognized insurance
subsidiaries.  Globe Life And Accident is a direct-response provider of life
insurance known for its administrative efficiencies.  American Income Life
provides individual life insurance to labor union members.  Liberty National
Life, one of the oldest traditional life insurers in the Southeast, is the
largest life insurer in its home state of Alabama.  United American is a
consumer-oriented provider of supplemental health insurance.


SOURCE Torchmark Corporation




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