Upcoming Changes to Our Life Product Portfolio

Mutual of Omaha is financially strong and we continue to focus on growing our company. Our commitment to growth is what helps ensure that we’ll be around when it comes time for us to deliver on the promises we’ve made to our policyholders. This continued growth requires an investment of capital, and as a mutual company, we rely primarily on our earnings to create new capital. Recently, statutory earnings have been impacted by several economic factors, including a prolonged low interest rate environment. We’re proactively addressing this trend in 2020 to produce positive statutory earnings and maintain our long-term financial
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Categories: Industry News, Life Insurance, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

2020 Life Product Changes: Transition Rules

Effective January 1, 2020, we will be making changes to our life product portfolio, including discontinuing our Guaranteed Universal Life product, repricing our Level and Graded Living Promise Whole Life final expense products, repricing our Term Life Express Non-ROP product and discontinuing our Term Life Express 20-Year ROP product. Below is a summary of the transition rules. More information on these product changes and transition rules can be found in our 2020 Life Product Changes Frequently Asked Questions document.   GUL and TLE 20-Year ROP policies: You will still be able to submit applications for GUL and TLE 20-year ROP
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Learn the Basics: Living Promise

If you are a new agent or would just like to learn more about Living Promise (Final Expense) Whole Life Insurance, we’ve made it simple for you. We created this quick, informative video to teach you about the product features and some of the selling points of Living Promise.  Or to view in a separate window, click here.   If you have any questions, please contact your Mutual of Omaha’s Sales Support at (800) 693-6083 or email sales.support@mutualofomaha.com.   Learn the Basics: Living Promise   #goldencareagent #mutualofomaha
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Categories: Industry News, Life Insurance, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Living Promise Instant Decision Enhancements

When you sit with your clients you want to provide them with an underwriting decision as quickly as possible. We are always looking for ways we can improve our processes to make doing business even easier for you and your clients. Last month we installed enhancements to the rules for Automated Underwriting on Living Promise e-Applications. After the install, we saw a 6% change. This resulted in decreases in referrals and increases in decisions at point-of-sale. We are continually watching trends and making adjustments to our rules to ensure you have the best experience possible for both you and your
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Categories: Industry News, Life Insurance, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Learn the Basics: Living Promise

If you are a new agent or would just like to learn more about Living Promise (Final Expense) Whole Life Insurance, we’ve made it simple for you. We created this quick, informative video to teach you about the product features and some of the selling points of Living Promise.   Or to view in a separate window, click here.   If you have any questions, please contact your Mutual of Omaha’s Sales Support at (800) 693-6083 or email sales.support@mutualofomaha.com.   Learn the Basics: Living Promise   #goldencareagent #mutualofomaha
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Categories: Industry News, Life Insurance, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

LTC13, Critical Advantage, TLA and Living Promise E-App Unavailable September 1st

On Sunday, September 1st, the Paperless Solutions Group e-app environment will be temporarily unavailable as we perform routine maintenance. This will affect LTC13, Critical Advantage, TLA and Living Promise product lines. The planned outage will last 5:00 a.m. (CST) Sunday through 5:00 p.m. (CST). For consideration of additional time zones, the outage window will be: Eastern — 6:00 a.m. through 6:00 p.m. Mountain — 4:00 a.m. through 4:00 p.m. West Coast — 3:00 a.m. through 3:00 p.m. We encourage you to take this outage window into consideration when arranging any appointments on Sunday, September 1st. We apologize for any inconvenience
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Categories: Critical Illness, Industry News, Life Insurance, Long-Term Care, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Mandatory Phone Health Interview Removed on TLE and GULE

Want another reason to sell TLE and GULE? We no longer require a mandatory phone health interview (PHI) on our Term Life Express and Guaranteed Universal Life Express products for face amounts between $250,001-$300,000. A mandatory PHI will not be required, at any face amount applied for, effective August 1, 2019. Applications signed prior to August 1, 2019, with a face amount of $250,001-$300,000, will continue to have the mandatory PHI Applications signed August 1, 2019 and later, will no longer require a mandatory PHI to be completed Now the application process can go even faster and your clients only
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It’s Almost Life Insurance Awareness Month

It’s almost time for those of us in the industry to celebrate what we do every day—help clients protect their family home, their savings, their way of life and their plans for the future. It’s also a great time for your agents to start a conversation about the value of life insurance-whether they’re meeting with a new prospect or conducting an annual review with an existing client. Life insurance and retirement planning Any discussion about life insurance should include its role in retirement planning. Our Map Your Course materials can help. This suite of materials helps your agents talk with
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Living Promise e-App Will Be Unavailable on August 17th

On Saturday, August 17th, the Living Promise (Final Expense) iPipeline e-Application system will be temporarily unavailable as we perform routine maintenance. The planned outage will last 11:00 p.m. (CST) Friday, August 16th through 11:00 p.m. (CST) Saturday, August 17th. During this outage: You will not see Living Promise as an available product option when starting a new case Your producer dashboard will not display your Living Promise pending cases Any cases awaiting signatures (whether the HIPAA signature or final signature) will not be able to be signed. If someone attempts to click on a link that was sent via an
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Customize Your Own Living Promise Postcard

Living Promise Whole Life Insurance can help ease the financial burden associated with outstanding medical bills, debt and final expenses. It offers your clients affordable premium rates that never increase, no medical exam is required and the policy can’t be canceled as long as premiums are paid and there has been no material misrepresentation. Call Mutual of Omaha’s Sales Support at 1-800-693-6083 to customize our Living Promise rate postcard today!   If you have questions, please contact Mutual of Omaha’s Sales Support at 800-693-6083 or email sales.support@mutualofomaha.com.   Customize Your Own Living Promise Postcard   #goldencareagent #mutualofomaha
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