Independence Holding Company Announces Commencement of Exchange Offer for American Independence Common Stock

Independence Holding Company IHC today announced that it has commenced an offer to exchange up to 908,085 shares of its common stock for properly tendered and accepted shares of common stock of American Independence Corp. AMIC. The Exchange Offer will expire at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Friday, August 12, 2011, unless extended or earlier terminated by IHC. For each share of AMIC common stock accepted in accordance with the terms of the Exchange Offer, IHC will issue 0.625 of a share of IHC common stock. Were IHC to exchange all of the shares of IHC common stock offered in the Exchange Offer for shares of AMIC common stock, IHC's total ownership of AMIC would increase to 80% from its current 62.95%.