New Advantage Plus Presentation Now Available

Count on GTL to help you continue to sell during this uncertain time. GTL has developed a short presentation to help assist you in selling Advantage Plus during your client presentations! This 16 slide presentation was made to easily work with video conferencing and screen sharing programs such as Zoom or Skype for your clients to follow along. To download the PDF, please click on GTLink in the e-App or Agent Portal, go to Consumer Marketing, and select Advantage Plus to access the new client presentation. Download on GTLink     New Advantage Plus Presentation Now Available   #goldencareagent #gtl
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Categories: Guarantee Trust Life, Hospital Indemnity Plan, and Industry News.

Changes to OneAmerica Annuity Care II

Coming on April 25: Key changes to Annuity Care II Continuation of Benefits rider OneAmerica® is committed to the asset-based long-term market and to offering products that bring value to both our agents and the clients we serve together. To ensure the longevity of our portfolio and the certainty of our ability to keep our promises to you and your clients, we must continually monitor market conditions, evaluate our pricing, and adjust as needed.   What’s changing As a result, we’ll be making two key changes to the Continuation of Benefit (COB) rider options on our Annuity Care II product,
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Categories: Industry News, Linked Benefit/Hybrids, and OneAmerica.

COVID-19: Lapsed Policies and Grace Period Extensions

COVID-19: Lapsed Policies and Grace Period Extensions At OneAmerica, we believe in being there when our customers need us most. We recognize that due to the far-reaching effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, some life insurance policyowners currently may struggle to pay their premiums on time. To help those who have a real need during this time and to address the various state requests and directives, the following procedures are being implemented: For policies that have lapsed If a life insurance policy lapsed AFTER the policyowner’s resident state issued a moratorium on lapses, then: OneAmerica is automatically extending coverage on these
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Categories: COVID-19, Industry News, Linked Benefit/Hybrids, and OneAmerica.

An Update on the Underwriting Impacts of COVID-19

What You Need to Know About the Underwriting Impacts of COVID-19 As we continue to adapt to meet the challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic, our priority is to be there for you and your new and existing clients. That means providing as much flexibility to our underwriting approach as possible, while protecting the financial futures of our in force policyholders. Securing paramedical services helps your clients have the best chance for receiving an offer from OneAmerica. Paramedical Services Though there has been some disruption, paramedical services are still widely available. Our two primary exam companies, ExamOne and APPS Paramedical Services,
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Categories: COVID-19, Industry News, Linked Benefit/Hybrids, and OneAmerica.

GTL: Emergency Grace Period Information

March 25, 2020 EMERGENCY BILLING GRACE PERIODS FOR NON-PAYMENT OF PREMIUM MAY BE EXTENDED To assist policy owners experiencing hardship as a result of the COVID-19 health emergency, GTL is committed to keeping your policy in force and extending the time you have to pay overdue premium in accordance with state regulations. GTL’s website will be updated regularly and will provide information on time extensions that have been granted by the agency regulating insurance in your state. States which currently have time extensions and /or other provisional allowances are listed below.   Click here for state-specific information   Please contact
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Categories: COVID-19, Guarantee Trust Life, and Industry News.

Important Message For Our Customers (COVID-19)

March 25, 2020 CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION ON EMERGENCY GRACE PERIODS. Dear GTL’s Valued Policyholders and Agents, As you might imagine, the past ten days has been very eventful at Guarantee Trust. We have lots of moving pieces and heightened levels of activity to support a very thorough plan of operations which has two main objectives. One objective is to provide the safest possible work environment for our employee population and the second, and equally important, objective is to provide outstanding uninterrupted service to our policyholders and field representatives. As of last week, we had better than 50% of
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Categories: COVID-19, Guarantee Trust Life, and Industry News.

Genworth: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Preparedness

We are committed to protecting our associates and their families, as well as being there when our policyholders and customers need us the most. In response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, we have implemented a plan to help reduce the risk of exposure and transmission among our employees and allow us to continue to provide service to our policyholders and customers. This includes several changes to our corporate policies. Work. All employees strongly encouraged to work from home Travel Guidelines. Restricted employee travel and company visitors Technology. Equipped employees with tools and technology to work remotely from home. Business Continuity.
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Categories: COVID-19, Genworth, Industry News, and Long-Term Care.

LTC Marketing Program Has Been Discontinued

Apr. 2020 LTC Marketing Program Has Been Discontinued Our LTC Marketing Credits program has been discontinued effective March 31st. We’re exploring new ways to recognize our top producers and incentivize sales success. For now, here’s what’s important to know about the discontinuation. How to Redeem Your Credits: Must submit for reimbursement on or before April 15, 2020 Submit your paid invoice or receipt along with the LTC Marketing Credits Reimbursement Form to Jackie.Cooper@mutualofomaha.com All reimbursements are done via direct deposit Complete your one-time ACH direct deposit form here. If you have questions, please contact your GoldenCare Regional Director by calling
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Categories: Industry News, Long-Term Care, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

GoldenCare’s CSG Actuarial Tool Now Offers More Value

Great News! Our GoldenCare CSG Actuarial quoting & comparison tool has been expanded to include new features and additional product lines! Users will now have access to the Document Locker and Electronic Scope of Appointment, as well as have the capability to quote & comparison hospital indemnity plans and final expense!   Document Locker and Electronic Scope of Appointment Now you can sign and electronically store Scope of Appointments! CSG Actuarial is helping agents stay compliant and get to the Medicare Advantage sale faster with the Electronic Scope of Appointment and Document Locker. Benefits of using the eSOA: Scopes are
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Categories: GoldenCare News, Hospital Indemnity Plan, Industry News, Life Insurance, and Medicare Supp./Adv..

Exciting new look from NGL

Exciting new look from NGL We hope that you are all staying healthy and we thank you for your continued support. As we all navigate this uncertain time, we wanted to provide some positive news and are excited to share our new logo with all of you! Please click on the image below for the reveal. NGL has utilized the “tree of life” logo since 1965 when it was originally created. It has been a strong logo, however with NGL’s renewed purpose and focus, a modern brand that resonated with partners and policyholders was created. “Testing several logos and selecting
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Categories: Industry News, Long-Term Care, and National Guardian Life.