MCKINNEY, Texas, Feb. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Torchmark
Corporation (NYSE: TMK) announced that its Board of Directors has declared
a quarterly dividend of $.14 per share, an 8% increase of $.01 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 4, 2008. The
dividend will be paid on May 1, 2008.
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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CONTACT:
Joyce Lane, Vice President, Investor
Relations of Torchmark Corporation, +1-972-569-3627, fax,
+1-972-569-3282, jlane@torchmarkcorp.com
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