Torchmark Corporation Files Documents

    Torchmark Corporation Files Documents With UK Listing Authority 
 
Birmingham, Alabama, USA, March 24, 2003 ... Torchmark Corporation (NYSE: TMK) 
reported today that a copy of each of the documents listed below has been 
submitted to the UK Listing Authority, and will shortly be available for 
inspection at the UK Listing Authority's Document Viewing Facility, which is 
located at:  Financial Services Authority, 25 The North Colonnade, Canary 
Wharf, London, E14 5HS, telephone [phone]. 
 
2002 Annual Report 
Notice of Annual Meeting of Shareholders 
Proxy Form and SEC Form 10K 
 
     These documents may also be viewed on Torchmark Corporation's website at  
www.torchmarkcorp.com, on the Investor Relations page. 
   
     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, and 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 insurer in its home state of Alabama.  
American Income Life is nationally recognized for providing supplemental life 
insurance to labor union members. 
 
For additional information contact:     Joyce Lane 
                         Vice President, Investor Relations 
                         USA Phone:     [phone] 
                         USA FAX:  [phone] 
                         [e-mail] 
                         Website: www.torchmarkcorp.com 
 
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