Torchmark Corporation Announces Its First Quarter 2002 Earnings Conference Call on the Web

April 12, 2002

In conjunction with Torchmark Corporation's (NYSE: TMK) First Quarter 2002 Earnings Release, you are invited to listen to its conference call that will be broadcast live over the Internet on April 18, 2002 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern.

What: Torchmark Corporation First Quarter 2002 Earnings Release Conference Call

When: April 18, 2002 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time

Where: http://www.torchmarkcorp.com/ (on the investor relations page) or http://www.videonewswire.com/event.asp?id=4307

How: Live over the Internet -- Simply log on to the web at one of the addresses above

Contact: Joyce L. Lane, 972/569-3627, jlane@torchmarkcorp.com

Torchmark Corporation is a financial services holding company specializing in life and supplemental health insurance for "middle income" Americans marketed through multiple distribution channels including direct response, exclusive and independent agencies. Subsidiary Globe Life and Accident is a nationally recognized direct-response provider of life insurance known for its administrative efficiencies. United American has been a nationally recognized provider of Medicare supplement health insurance since 1966. Liberty National Life, one of the oldest traditional life insurers in the Southeast, is the largest life insurance company in its home state of Alabama. American Income Life is nationally recognized for providing supplemental life insurance to labor union members.

(Minimum Requirements to listen to broadcast: The Windows Media Player software, downloadable free from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/EN/default.asp and at least a 28.8Kbps connection to the Internet. If you experience problems listening to the broadcast, send an email to isproducers@prnewswire.com).

SOURCE Torchmark Corporation

CONTACT: Joyce L. Lane of Torchmark Corporation, +1-972-569-3627, or jlane@torchmarkcorp.com

Web site: http://www.torchmarkcorp.com/