Press Release

Lincoln Financial Group selects Insurance Technologies' FireLight^®, an e-application business fulfillment platform.

January 8, 2013
Colorado Springs, CO

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO, January 8, 2013 – Insurance Technologies, LLC, a provider of sales and regulatory automation solutions for the insurance and financial services industries, announced today that Lincoln Financial Group has selected FireLight^® to automate and streamline its annuity e-application business processing. FireLight, a rules driven device-agnostic e-application business fulfillment solution, will provide Lincoln Financial Group's distribution partners a user-friendly, mobile and familiar e-application platform to enhance their sales process.

"To have an existing ForeSight^™ partner (since 2001) like Lincoln Financial Group enhance and streamline their business processing with FireLight is an honor, and Insurance Technologies is excited to be part of this expansion," said Travis Champion, Vice President of Sales, Insurance Technologies. "FireLight will provide Lincoln Financial Group system flexibility and administrative tools to add, create and manage current and future business application processes, which will give them a true return on their technology investment."

"At Lincoln Financial Group, we strive to make it easier for our distribution partners to do business with us by enhancing the service experience at every critical interaction, and Insurance Technologies provides the resources to achieve this goal," said Nancy Jordan, Senior Vice President, Individual Annuity Operations, Lincoln Financial Group. "We're excited about expanding our long-standing partnership with Insurance Technologies and offering our paper-based distribution partners an end-to-end sales solution that will take them seamlessly from illustration to application, all on a mobile platform."

About Insurance Technologies (www.insurancetechnologies.com)
Based in Colorado, Insurance Technologies provides innovative sales and regulatory automation solutions to the insurance and financial services industries, supplying Carriers, Broker-Dealers, Bankers and Advisors the accurate sales tools allowing them more time to develop new sales opportunities. Our product suite manages the sales process across distribution channels thus providing Straight-Through Processing (STP) resulting in more in good order applications. ForeSight^™ is a mobile point-of-sale platform that illustrates all business lines across diverse distribution channels. FireLight^® is a low cost, flexible and easy to deploy device-agnostic e-application business fulfillment platform that automates any existing sales process across all lines of business.

About Lincoln Financial Group (www.lincolnfinancial.com)
Lincoln Financial Group is the marketing name for Lincoln National Corporation (NYSE:LNC) and its affiliates. With headquarters in the Philadelphia region, the companies of Lincoln Financial Group had assets under management of $174 billion as of September 30, 2012. Through its affiliated companies, Lincoln Financial Group offers: employer-sponsored retirement plans; individual annuities and life insurance, group life, disability and dental insurance; and comprehensive financial planning and advisory services. For more information, including a copy of our most recent SEC reports containing our balance sheets, please visit www.lincolnfinancial.com.