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National Western Life Selects iPipeline iGO e-App for Life and Annuities Business

Exton, PA - January 5th, 2010. iPipeline™, a leader in on-demand software that supports marketing, selling, and processing solutions for the nation's top insurance carriers, distributors and producers, today announced that National Western Life has selected iGO e-App™. Under the agreement, National Western Life will be deploying full iGO e-Apps (intelligent fillable forms) with e-Signature and e-Submission for their international and domestic Life and Annuities business. iPipeline will also provide a user interface within the iGO e-App that enables producers to access and run various quotes and illustrations to support marketing, sales and processing activities. The solution, built on the Microsoft .Net Framework in a cloud computing environment, includes content distribution and management capabilities to deliver new efficiencies to the insurance industry.

National Western Life has contracts with independent agents in 49 states, the District of Columbia, 4 U.S. territories, and Haiti. The Company also accepts applications from individuals in Central and South American, Caribbean, and Pacific Rim countries. This win demonstrates how our Web-based iGO e-App solution and disconnected client can be used in concert to support a demanding global application," said Tim Wallace, CEO, iPipeline. "Key to the success of this international deployment is the use of our e-Signature and e-Submission capabilities. We are pleased to have National Western Life as a valued business partner and look forward to deploying our solution set in 2010.

iPipeline recognizes that it is critical for insurance firms to streamline workflows, improve efficiencies and embrace straight-through processing," said Bill Hartnett, Director of U.S. Insurance Industry Solutions, Microsoft Corp. "With iGO e-App, based on the .Net Framework in a cloud computing environment, National Western Life will benefit from ease of access and accelerated processing power.

National Western Life is committed to providing our producers with the best technology to support their marketing, selling and processing efforts on a global basis. Our evaluation of competitive products was vigorous and key to iPipeline's final selection. After speaking with several of their major carriers, we were convinced iGO e-App was the way to proceed," said Scott E. Arendale, Senior Vice President of International Marketing, National Western Life. "Our international as well as our domestic deployments demand a wide-spread solution and talented delivery team. We look forward to the international and domestic launch of term and annuity quotes and forms as well as the domestic launch of iGO e-App annuities in early 2010. Soon afterwards, we will follow with the international implementation of iGO e-App in five languages for our life business. This means doing business with National Western Life will be easier and faster for our international producers as a result of our partnership with iPipeline.

This initiative sends a strong message to our distribution partners that National Western Life is committed to being their company of choice," said Chris Johnson, Domestic Chief Marketing Officer, National Western Life. "These significant investments in technology, during some of the toughest financial times our industry has faced, will have an immediate impact on the ease of doing business with us.

To learn how you can implement iPipeline's global solutions to support the marketing, selling and processing of insurance, contact us or call (800)758-0824.

About National Western Life Insurance:

Founded in 1956, National Western Life is a stock life insurance company offering a broad portfolio of individual universal life, whole life and term insurance plans, annuity products, and investment contracts meeting the financial needs of its customers in 49 states as well as residents of various countries in Central and South America, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, Asia and the Pacific Rim. The Company has approximately 290 employees and 10,700 contracted independent agents, brokers and consultants, and at September 30, 2009, maintained total assets of $7.3 billion, stockholders' equity of nearly $1.1 billion, and life insurance in force of $18.5 billion. www.nationalwesternlife.com

About iPipeline:

iPipeline leads its industry in providing the next-generation suite of sales distribution software as a "clean technology" to the insurance and financial services markets through its on-demand service. iPipeline's channel solutions for carriers, distributors, and producers automate activities for quoting, forms processing, illustrations development, requirements ordering, contracting, and content distribution, enabling the insurance industry to market, sell, and process faster. iPipeline provides the process automation and seamless integration needed to make a sale by aggregating over 160 carriers, 1,200 distributors, and 600,000 agents in a single, Web-based environment - the iPipeline Network.