A provider of life and supplemental health insurance says it plans to restart a plan to buy back the company’s stock.
Torchmark Corp., McKinney, Tex., has resumed its common stock repurchase program, which it suspended in the first quarter of 2009 in light of economic conditions at that time.
The company resumed the buyback program after an improvement in its capital position, including a higher-than-expected 355% consolidated risk-based capital ratio in its subsidiaries, Torchmark said.