Give Them a Gift for Life

With a Children’s Whole Life policy you can help your clients create a solid financial foundation for their children and grandchildren– all for a modest premium. Children’s Whole Life also offers flexibility with a Guaranteed Insurability Rider. This rider allows additional policies to be purchased in the future at the time of several life events, without evidence of insurability. To learn more about Children’s Whole Life and other Simplified Issue products go to MutualofOmaha.com/Simple.   If you have any questions, please contact your Mutual of Omaha’s Sales Support at (800) 693-6083 or email sales.support@mutualofomaha.com.   Give Them a Gift for
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Categories: Industry News, Life Insurance, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Selling Critical Advantage

Protecting your clients against financial burden is important to you and your business. Mutual of Omaha’s Critical Advantage portfolio helps protect your clients should they suffer from a critical illness. Our product pays a lump-sum benefit upon diagnosis of a covered condition and we pay it directly to the policyholder not the health care provider. Boost your Critical Advantage knowledge and sales with these Tips: Did you Know? Stand Alone product — The product was built specifically for a Critical Illness, Cancer, Heart Attack/Stroke. It is a stand-alone policy and not an add on feature on another product which means
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Categories: Critical Illness, Industry News, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Medicare Solutions – Omaha Family of Companies

Medicare Supplement: Cost Savings Plan N View information on our Plan N and how it can save on costs.   Underwriting Tips for Credit Card Payments View helpful underwriting tips for using a credit card for payments.   New Omaha Insurance Company Medicare Supplement Plans in Kansas and New Mexico View information about Omaha Insurance Company Medicare supplement plans in KS and NM.   Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug Plans: PDP Case Status PDP Case Status can now be found on SPA under Case Management.   #goldencareagent #mutualofomaha
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Categories: Dental, Industry News, Medicare Supp./Adv., and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

New Partnership policy states and updated marketing materials

Partnership exchange mailing in Illinois Following the Partnership policy approval in Illinois in 2019, we are happy to announce that the exchange of eligible National Guardian Life Insurance Company (NGL) EssentialLTC policies issued in Illinois began on May 26, 2020. Click here for more information. Updated marketing materials Newly updated marketing materials are now available and ready for you to download from the Agent Resource Center. We will continue to share materials as new ones are created or existing ones are updated with the new NGL logo. Updated documents available: Agent Guide – Information about commissions, underwriting, agent licensing, HIPAA,
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Categories: Industry News, Long-Term Care, and National Guardian Life.

New Blood-Borne Pathogen Test Consent Form in Washington

Beginning June 11, 2020, the state of Washington is requiring the HIV Consent Form to be replaced with a new Blood-Borne Pathogen Test Informed Consent Form. The Washington fully-underwritten life insurance application packets have already been updated to include the new form. We encourage you to update your application packets as soon as possible to ensure you are using the correct forms. If you have printed versions of the Washington application packets, please replace the HIV Consent form with the new Blood-Borne Pathogen Test Informed Consent Form. If you need new fully-underwritten application kits in Washington, you can either download
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Categories: Industry News, Life Insurance, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

What are LTC Post Issue Requirements?

Below is an illustration of the typical LTC application process: STEP 1 Application Submission STEP 2 Risk Assessment STEP 3 Final Action STEP 4 Policy Delivery STEP 5 PIR Submissions   You may think that your work is complete by Step 4: Policy Delivery; however, in some situations post issue requirements (PIRs) are needed. Awareness of potential PIRs will help you maintain customer satisfaction as well as monitor your cases until final policy delivery. So… What is a Post Issue Requirement? PIRs may include one or more of the following items: Outstanding Premium Total premium is due 60 days from
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Categories: Industry News, Long-Term Care, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

New Critical Illness Built-in Return of Premium Consumer Flyer

Help illustrate the built-in ROP benefit when talking with clients. If your client dies while their policy is in effect, a beneficiary will receive all premiums paid in, minus any policy benefits or optional riders paid to your client. There is no additional charge for this benefit. To download this new flyer, click here. It’s also available through normal ordering channels. Note: Return of Premium is not available in all states. Please check your state policy for complete benefit information.   New Critical Illness Built-in Return of Premium Consumer Flyer   #goldencareagent #mutualofomaha
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Categories: Critical Illness, Industry News, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

LTC Riders: Understanding the Differences in Design

Our LTC Rider on Income Advantage IUL and Life Protection Advantage IUL follows what is known as a reimbursement rider model. Many other companies use an indemnity model. Knowing the difference is important. Here’s a basic definition: Indemnity — Policyowner can take rider benefits up to the maximum monthly benefit limit regardless of the actual expenses incurred. Reimbursement — Policyowner is reimbursed based on actual expenses incurred by the insured, up to the maximum monthly benefit limit. At first glance based on the definitions alone, an indemnity rider may seem like the obvious choice, that your client has access to
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Categories: Industry News, Life Insurance, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Video Interview: LTC Underwriting Insights

Meet our underwriter, Bill Spano. Insurance is a family business for Bill Spano- he became an underwriter thanks to the encouragement of his siblings. It seems to be a good fit too, as he enjoys building relationships with agents and brokers, helping them out however he can. Take a couple minutes to check out Bill’s video and you’ll hear him discuss how you can get quick answers to your questions as well as some common application issues.   Video Interview: LTC Underwriting Insights   #goldencareagent #mutualofomaha #ltc
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Categories: Industry News, Long-Term Care, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Medicare Solutions – Omaha Family of Companies

Dental: Dental Insurance Spotlight-The Network View information about Mutual of Omaha’s Dental Network.   “Chomp at Dental Insurance for More Sales” Webinar Questions View Questions asked, during our “Chomp at Dental Insurance for More Sales” webinar, along with answers provided by our Sales Managers and Dental Teams.   #goldencareagent #mutualofomaha
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Categories: Dental, Industry News, Medicare Supp./Adv., and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).