Accelerate Your Business

Our Accelerated Underwriting program can speed up the underwriting process for your clients if they fit the program requirements. It’s an easy process that could provide an underwriting decision in 48-72 hours! Recently the program got even better: We made the program available for Income Advantage IUL and Life Protection Advantage IUL in addition to Term Life Answers. We increased the maximum face amount from $1 million to $2 million. Here are the basic program requirements: Application: Speed eTicket (Drop Ticket) Issue Ages: 18-55 Face Amounts: $100,000 – $2,000,000 Products Available: Term Life Answers (10-, 15-, 20- and 30- year),
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Categories: Industry News, Life Insurance, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Important Life Underwriting Update

Throughout the rapidly evolving pandemic, Mutual of Omaha has been continuously evaluating our underwriting and new business practices to support business continuity, deliver a consistently high level of service, and maintain our financial strength. As a result, effective Wednesday, April 15, 2020, we are implementing the following temporary changes to our life insurance underwriting guidelines. These changes apply to all fully-underwritten life insurance cases that are not already approved or issued. This includes any newly submitted and pending in-house cases, whether formal or informal. Postponements Due to International Travel All fully-underwritten life insurance cases where the proposed insured has plans
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Categories: COVID-19, Industry News, Life Insurance, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Email Address on Submitted Applications

This is a reminder to please fill-out your client’s applications completely before submitting for all Mutual of Omaha products. This includes capturing the customer’s email address. We encourage you to use an e-App if it is available for your products. e-Apps are an easy and fast way to submit business and have a field for email address. Most paper applications also have a field for an email address so if you prefer to use a paper application, please make sure you are including the client’s email address if applicable. Thank you for your business.   Email Address on Submitted Applications
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Categories: Critical Illness, Disability Income Insurance, Industry News, Life Insurance, Long-Term Care, Medicare Supp./Adv., and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

IUL Express Keeps Getting Faster – For Apps and Illustrations

In November, we introduced our new IUL Express product. This product took IUL products into the fast lane by using a simplified-issue process. We provided new videos showing how DocuSign can speed up the application process in the current environment. And this week, we are unveiling new changes that result in your IUL Express illustrations running even faster. Applications: In the past few weeks, we began allowing the submission of IUL Express paper applications electronically using one of our accepted electronic signature methods and our paper application submission via email process. This process has a substantial impact on how quickly
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Categories: Industry News, Life Insurance, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Automated Underwriting – Our Instant Decision Solution

The application process for our Term Life Express and Living Promise Whole Life Insurance products is simple – no medical exam and only a few health questions. But did you know when you complete the application using our e-Application you will receive an instant underwriting decision? Automated Underwriting, our instant decision solution, provides you an underwriting decision in minutes, if not seconds, while you are completing the application with your client. New to our e-Applications? Check our our producer training videos below. You can select just the chapters that you need assistance on, or if you are brand new, watch
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Categories: Industry News, Life Insurance, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Life Underwriting Updates: Accelerated Underwriting and Statements of Good Health

As Mutual of Omaha carefully reviews our underwriting processes and procedures, which continue to evolve during this current situation, we would like to announce the following changes for Life Underwriting effective immediately. Accelerated Underwriting Program We are increasing the maximum face amount limit to $2 million. Qualifications Requirements: Issue Ages 18-55 Face Amounts: $100,000 – $2,000,000 Available Products: Term Life Answers 10-, 15-, 20- and 30-years, Income Advantage IUL and Life Protection Advantage IUL Speed eTicket (Drop Ticket) process only Use Speed eTicket, our easy drop ticket process to take advantage of this program. Simply submit a drop ticket via
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Categories: COVID-19, Industry News, Life Insurance, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

NEW IUL Express Electronic Submission Training Videos

Recently, we began allowing you to submit IUL Express paper applications electronically using one of our accepted electronic signature methods and our paper application submission via email process. To help you transition to this new electronic submission process we created two new producer training videos. Please note, these videos show the process using DocuSign as the electronic signature method since it is the most widely used. The first producer training video walks you through IUL Express using Easy Solve and the DocuSign process. The second video shows you the DocuSign process only. IUL Express Easy Solve & DocuSign Producer Training
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Categories: Industry News, Life Insurance, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

The Living Benefits of IUL Express

Indexed Universal Life Express (IUL Express) provides a host of benefits to your clients’ loved ones. The most important one is that their beneficiaries will receive a one-time death benefit in the amount your clients choose, ranging from $25,000 to $300,000.* This death benefit is paid directly to their beneficiaries to replace lost income and maintain their standard of living. In addition to the death benefit, IUL Express policies come with living benefits at no additional cost. The Accelerated Death Benefit Riders for terminal, chronic and critical illness**, may allow your clients to access a portion of the death benefit
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Categories: Industry News, Life Insurance, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Prospecting Material Can Help You Reach Your Clients

We realize it may be challenging to reach potential and current customers during this time. Mutual of Omaha can help with our consumer prospecting materials. Personalized prospecting materials are available for ordering with your contact information so clients can contact you directly to help them with the coverage they need. Just click on the links below to see the all prospecting material that is available for you. Health Products Critical Advantage self-mailer and postcard Long-Term Care cost of waiting self-mailer and retirement planning self-mailer Priority Income Protection (PIP) self-mailer Life Products Term Life Express (TLE) self-mailer Indexed Universal Life Express
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Categories: Critical Illness, Disability Income Insurance, Industry News, Life Insurance, Long-Term Care, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Important information from Distribution Compensation

As our Distribution Compensation team members are working remotely due to the Coronavirus, it has given us an opportunity to review some of our processes and modernize our approach with our partners. Effective immediately, if you need to contact broker compensation for any reason, please use the following methods: Phone: 1-800-475-4465 Email: broker.compensation@mutualofomaha.com   NOTE: We are no longer able to receive or process any faxes. Please know we are here to support you and your business. Mutual of Omaha remains fully committed to the industry, to you and our customers. Thank you for your continued trust.   Important information
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Categories: COVID-19, Critical Illness, Disability Income Insurance, Industry News, Life Insurance, Long-Term Care, Medicare Supp./Adv., and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).