Help Clients Preserve Their Estate with the LTC Rider

August 7, 2020 | by | Comments Off on Help Clients Preserve Their Estate with the LTC Rider

Many people work a lifetime to accumulate assets to pave the way for a comfortable retirement and to leave an inheritance for their children. The last thing anyone wants is to see their hard-earned savings depleted to pay for long-term care services. Long-term care services, however, can quickly erode a client’s assets. The Help Preserve Your Client’s Estate sales idea discusses the need for long-term care services. It also includes a case study that examines the impact a life insurance policy with a long-term care rider can have on a client’s estate using two contrasting scenarios. For even more information
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Categories: Industry News, Life Insurance, Long-Term Care, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).
Tags: Income Advantage, Income Advantage IUL, insurance, IUL, Life Insurance, Life Protection Advantage, Life Protection Advantage IUL, Long-Term Care, long-term care insurance, LTC, LTC Rider, LTCi, mutual of omaha, omaha, and United of Omaha.

Human API Pilot for LTC Applications

August 6, 2020 | by | Comments Off on Human API Pilot for LTC Applications

Important: This announcement only applies to marketers who do not order their own medical records. Mutual of Omaha is committed to offering you and your clients the tools and resources to make it easy to do business with us. Beginning August 10, 2020, Mutual of Omaha will launch a new pilot with Human API to obtain your clients’ electronic health records as part of our underwriting process. This pilot will include Fully Underwritten Life and Long-Term Care products where ordering of medical records is required. By partnering with Human API, we can provide your clients a simple and secure way
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Categories: Industry News, Long-Term Care, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).
Tags: insurance, Long-Term Care, long-term care insurance, LTC, LTC Awareness Month, LTC Conversation, LTC Planning, LTCi, mutual of omaha, and omaha.

Improvements to Our Accelerated Underwriting Program

July 28, 2020 | by | Comments Off on Improvements to Our Accelerated Underwriting Program

Since we introduced our Accelerated Underwriting program, we have continued to review the program and make enhancements. We are pleased to announce that we are improving our Accelerated Underwriting Program once again. Effectively immediately, we are: Increasing the Accelerated Underwriting maximum issue age from age 55 to age 60 Making the $2 million maximum that was announced in April a permanent increase Our Accelerated Underwriting program is available for Term Life Answers, Income Advantage IUL and Life Protection Advantage IUL. The process is easy. Simply submit a Speed eTicket (drop ticket), ExamOne contacts the client, and we take care of
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Categories: Industry News, Life Insurance, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).
Tags: Income Advantage, Income Advantage IUL, indexed universal life, insurance, IUL, Life Insurance, Life Protection Advantage, Life Protection Advantage IUL, mutual of omaha, Mutual of Omaha Insurance Company, omaha, term life, Term Life Answers, TLA, Underwriting', and United of Omaha.

Real Life Stories: A Burden Relieved

July 28, 2020 | by | Comments Off on Real Life Stories: A Burden Relieved

As Joe approached his 65th birthday and his disability insurance was about to expire, James suggested long term care insurance. The Mollicones were initially hesitant, but neither wanted to be a burden to the other or to their two adult children, so they purchased policies. Less than six months later, Joe suffered a massive stroke that left him paralyzed on the right side and unable to speak. Three months after the stroke, the long-term care insurance policy started paying the maximum daily benefit and has been just enough to cover Joe’s home care needs. Four years later Joe reached his
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Categories: Industry News, Long-Term Care, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).
Tags: insurance, LIFE Happens, Long-Term Care, long-term care insurance, LTC, LTCi, mutual of omaha, Mutual of Omaha Insurance Company, and omaha.

Sales Professional Access Compensation Page Enhancement

July 28, 2020 | by | Comments Off on Sales Professional Access Compensation Page Enhancement

We are pleased to announce an enhancement to our compensation page on Sales Professional Access (SPA) for producers who receive commission payments directly from Mutual of Omaha. This enhancement will allow you to view the most recent and the previous compensation payment as well as the ability to look up the commission you received on a specific case by providing the policy number. If you have any questions regarding the new page or would like to provide additional feedback to make the page easier for you, please send an email to comp.enhancement.feedback@mutualofomaha.com. For questions regarding your compensation payments, please email
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Categories: Industry News, Long-Term Care, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).
Tags: insurance, Long-Term Care, long-term care insurance, LTC, LTC Awareness Month, LTC Conversation, LTC Planning, LTCi, mutual of omaha, and omaha.

Anti-Money Laundering Best Practices

July 28, 2020 | by | Comments Off on Anti-Money Laundering Best Practices

What vendors do we accept AML from? LIMRA RegEd Kaplan WebCE Sandi Kruise What courses from LIMRA does Mutual of Omaha accept? First time users must complete: Anti-Money Laundering for Insurance Producers Renewal Courses 2016 renewal — Elder Financial Abuse and Money Laundering 2018 renewal — The Importance of Knowing Your Customer 2020 renewal — Money Laundering and Cybercrime How to complete AML Training through LIMRA The LIMRA course will not be available until after the producer has received confirmation and a producer number. If the producer is already enrolled in LIMRA the training will automatically update in our system.
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Categories: Industry News, Life Insurance, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).
Tags: AML, Anti-Money Laundering Training, insurance, life, Life Insurance, LIMRA, mutual of omaha, omaha, training, and United of Omaha.

Reminder: Policyowner Services and Claims Phone Lines

July 28, 2020 | by | Comments Off on Reminder: Policyowner Services and Claims Phone Lines

As a reminder, 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.
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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).
Tags: Customer Service, insurance, IUL, IULE, Life Insurance, Long-Term Care, long-term care insurance, LTC, LTCi, mutual of omaha, Mutual of Omaha Insurance Company, omaha, Omaha Insurance Company, self-service, term life, transmittal, and United of Omaha.

iPipeline e-App Browser Update

July 28, 2020 | by | Comments Off on iPipeline e-App Browser Update

We have been working with iPipeline to fix security issues caused by a recent Apple operating system update. We are excited to share that you can now resume using Safari as one of the preferred browsers for iPipeline e-Applications. We appreciate your patience and flexibility while we addressed this issue. As a reminder, please keep the browser requirements below in mind when submitting an e-Application. Only use the preferred browsers below. Please note, Internet Explorer is not a preferred browser. Chrome Safari Firefox Edge Make sure you’re always using the most recent version of a preferred browser. If you aren’t,
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Categories: Industry News, Life Insurance, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).
Tags: e-App, e-Application, insurance, Life Insurance, mutual of omaha, omaha, pending cases, and United of Omaha.

It’s Clear How Our IULs Are Renewing

July 28, 2020 | by | Comments Off on 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).
Tags: Income Advantage, Income Advantage IUL, indexed universal life, insurance, IUL, IULE, Life Protection Advantage, Life Protection Advantage IUL, mutual of omaha, Mutual of Omaha Insurance Company, omaha, and United of Omaha.

Critical Illness Has Built-in Return of Premium

July 28, 2020 | by | Comments Off on Critical Illness Has Built-in Return of Premium

A Critical Illness policy provides a direct payment to policyholders if diagnosed with a covered condition. And, if you have clients who are worried about paying premiums for something they may never use, a built-in return of premium can help ease their concern. The built-in return of premium benefit is a unique advantage of our Critical illness product. Any premiums paid minus any policy benefits received will be refunded to a beneficiary upon their death. And there is no additional charge for this benefit. This gives clients the coverage they want with the peace of mind they need. To learn
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Categories: Critical Illness, Industry News, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).
Tags: CI, critical illness, Critical Illness Insurance, diagnosis, insurance, mutual of omaha, Mutual of Omaha Insurance Company, omaha, return of premium, and ROP.