It’s Clear How Our IULs Are Renewing

At United of Omaha, we have a goal to be as transparent and as fair as possible in our IUL renewal rate setting process. We do this by not only providing you with our historical indexed interest crediting rates, but also with our renewal participation rates and caps. You will see there has been no difference in the participation rates and caps on our inforce policies and our new policies. Many carriers don’t publish their renewal rates. Oftentimes, it’s because they don’t want you to see when they have lowered their participation rates and caps on existing business, while continuing
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Categories: Industry News, Life Insurance, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Just the Hits

If you are looking for a quick intro to the IUL Express or GUL Express e-App you can find all the most important information in our Quick Hits training video. Below are the chapters – or hits – you will find in the video: Plan Information – IULE Easy Solve IULE Without Easy Solve Solution Premium Summary – IULE Premium Summary – GULE Attachments – IULE Attachments – GULE Disability Riders Final Decision – IULE Final Decision – GULE For more product information and training, check out MutualOfOmaha.com/Simple.   Just the Hits   #goldencareagent #mutualofomaha
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Categories: Industry News, Life Insurance, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

New pricing for SecureCare available in illustration software

SecureCare’s new pricing available on illustration software In response to the historically low interest rate environment, Securian Financial is implementing a pricing update to SecureCare Universal Life and increasing its maximum payment age from age 75 to age 80 in all Compact1 states and South Dakota on July 18, 2020. These product updates are now available to illustrate in these states. Please note: these changes impact new business submitted after July 17, 2020 at 3 p.m. CT only, there are no changes to in-force policies. To run an illustration with the new changes, a Compact1 state or South Dakota must
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Categories: Industry News, Life Insurance, and Securian.

Policyowner Services and Claims Phone Lines

On Thursday, July 30, 2020, our Policyowner Services and Claims departments will be having an all-employee meeting from 9:30 – 10:30 a.m. CST, and will be unavailable for phone calls during this time. We will be available on July 30th from 7:00 – 9:30 CST and from 10:30 – 5:30 CST and can be reached by calling 800-775-1000. We apologize for any inconvenience, and appreciate your understanding as we give our employees an opportunity to attend this live meeting. As a reminder, we provide a number of online self-service* capabilities: Life claims can now be filed online. Just go to
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Categories: Critical Illness, Dental, Disability Income Insurance, Industry News, Life Insurance, Long-Term Care, Medicare Supp./Adv., and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Speed up Your Fully-Underwritten IUL Sales

Over the past few months, we’ve introduced two enhancements on Income Advantage IUL and Life Protection Advantage IUL that will help speed up your IUL sales: IUL on Speed eTicket and improved IUL illustrations. IUL on Speed eTicket and using Accelerated Underwriting: Speed eTicket Parameters: Face Amounts up to $5 million; Ages 18+ See the Speed eTicket flyer for additional parameters Please note: Lab requirements will be needed for cases outside Accelerated Underwriting parameters Accelerated Underwriting Parameters: Face amounts up to $1 million; ages 18-55; standard, standard plus, preferred and preferred plus classes See the Accelerated Underwriting flyer for additional
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Categories: Industry News, Life Insurance, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Updated Transmittal Forms are Now Available

Beginning July 14, 2020, the Transmittal Forms on our Sales Professional Access producer website have been updated to include a Call Center checkbox. Call centers are becoming more prevalent in the insurance and financial services industry, and it’s important for Mutual of Omaha to know which of our agencies are operating as Call Centers. It’s also important to recognize that not all agencies conducting business over the phone are considered a Call Center. Use our Call Center Guidelines flyer to help determine if your agency or an agency in your downline would qualify as a Call Center. If you have
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Categories: Critical Illness, Dental, Disability Income Insurance, Industry News, Life Insurance, Long-Term Care, Medicare Supp./Adv., and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Learn the In’s and Out’s of Our e-App

Submitting your application online streamlines the application process, so your clients get coverage faster and you get paid sooner. We now offer all the products below on iPipeline e-Application. Products Available on Full e-App IUL Express GUL Express Living Promise Whole Life (Final Expense) Term Life Express Children’s Whole Life Guaranteed ADvantage (Accidental Death) In addition, on IUL Express, GUL Express, Living Promise and Term Life Express we process the application information in real time and provide an instant underwriting decision. Watch the complete training videos below to get full training, or skip to the specific section you need. IUL
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Categories: Industry News, Life Insurance, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

The Extras on Life Protection Advantage IUL

Life Protection Advantage IUL has competitive long-term no-lapse guarantee premiums. But that’s not all. The product also comes with value-added features that many competitors don’t offer. A Guaranteed Refund Option Rider Unlike many other IULs, qualifying Life Protection Advantage IUL policies come with a premium refund option when clients pay the ‘guarantee to 85’ premium level. With this feature, if your clients no longer need their life insurance coverage, they have seven 60-day windows in which they can surrender their policy and receive their premiums back. A Terminal and Chronic Illness Rider — at no additional cost Life Protection Advantage
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Categories: Industry News, Life Insurance, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Quotes on the Go

Quotes on the Go — Try our Mobile Application Today! Mutual of Omaha’s mobile app is available for all Android and Apple devices and allows you to customize the view to the products that you sell including Priority Income Protection. Producers can customize the product view to products you sell. Download the app today →   If you have any questions, please contact your Mutual of Omaha’s Sales Support at (800) 693-6083 or email sales.support@mutualofomaha.com.   Quotes on the Go   #goldencareagent #mutualofomaha
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Categories: Critical Illness, Dental, Disability Income Insurance, Industry News, Life Insurance, Long-Term Care, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Important Information Regarding EMSI Closure

On Friday, July 3, one of our approved paramedical companies, Examination Management Services Inc. (EMSI), announced they were ceasing operations effective immediately. This closure impacts exams and APSs ordered by the agent through EMSI. Please note: This does not impact exams and APSs ordered by the Mutual of Omaha home office since those are ordered through ExamOne. What You Need to Do: Any exams that were scheduled by the agent through EMSI will need to be rescheduled using one of the approved paramedical companies listed below. If your client has an exam scheduled with EMSI, it is important to let
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Categories: Industry News, Life Insurance, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).