What Will You Do With the Power of the Drop?

Raging rivers, towering waterfalls and roaring tidal waves all started with just one drop. It’s proof that a single drop can change the landscape. And now you have the power to change the GUL Express landscape with just one drop. On October 1, 2019, GUL Express became even more competitive with some big changes. Find GUL Express sales ideas in our updated sales solution flyer. If you have questions, contact your Sales Director or Account Executive.   What Will You Do With the Power of the Drop?   #goldencareagent #mutualofomaha
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Categories: Industry News, Life Insurance, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Advance Notice: End of Year Pay Schedule

As the holiday season quickly approaches, it’s easy to forget important dates with all the hustle and bustle. That’s why we are giving you early notice of our key end of year pay dates. Take a look and keep a copy with you to ensure you have the right dates. Mutual of Omaha and its affiliates (United of Omaha and United World) will be closed on the following days: Thanksgiving: Thursday, November 28, 2019 and Friday, November 29, 2019 Christmas: Wednesday, December 25, 2019 New Year’s Day: Wednesday, January 1, 2020 The past pay cutoff in 2019 for Life is
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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).

Show Your Clients the Value of the Critical Advantage products

The products in the Critical Advantage portfolio, Critical Illness, Cancer and Heart Attack & Stroke, were designed with your client’s recovery in mind. Our consumer brochure can help you show your clients the value of this coverage. Your clients need coverage that fills the gaps left by regular health insurance. The products in the Critical Advantage portfolio offer a lump-sum payment to cover things like high deductibles, replacing lost income and traveling to treatment facilities. Simple and direct coverage, Critical Advantage products helps your clients focus on their treatment, not their finances. Take a look at the Critical Advantage brochure
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Categories: Critical Illness, Industry News, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

IUL Express is Coming Your Way…

Can you hear that? That’s the sound of the new Indexed Universal Life Express (IUL Express) speeding this way! Once it’s here, you better be buckled up and ready to go, because it’s going to create some real momentum in the IUL market. Our IUL Express product has a lot of the same great features as our traditional IUL, but speeds it all up – faster underwriting, faster approvals and faster coverage for your clients. Beginning on November 1, 2019, this great new product will be available, featuring: Issue ages 18-70 with death benefits of $25,000 to $300,000* Permanent coverage
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Categories: Industry News, Life Insurance, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Building Wealth Outside the Business

Listen to Steve Alloy in Advanced Markets as he discusses this topic:   Small business owners are smart to form their companies as LLCs, corporations and limited partnerships. Why? Those entities tend to do a pretty good job of protecting the business owners’ personal assets from the businesses’ creditors. So, on the one hand they have done fine. They probably have been successful. They probably got a nice return on the money that they reinvested in their business. They have not lost everything to a creditor. And their business didn’t collapse because of an economic downturn or a disruption of
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Categories: Industry News, Life Insurance, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Medicare News – Omaha Family of Companies

Medicare Supplement: Minnesota Med Supp Outline Change Separate outlines for Extended Basic and Basic Medicare supplement in Minnesota.   Upcoming Medicare Supplement Rate Adjustments View rate adjustments for Vermont and Wisconsin.   New Med Supp Product in Montana Effective November 15, 2019, you may begin selling our new Medicare supplement product in Montana underwritten by Mutual of Omaha Insurance Company.   Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug Plans: PDP- Bits and Pieces From getting Ready to Sell PDP to submitting business check out these tips to help you maneuver through this year’s AEP.   MA and PDP- Plan Finder Q and
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Categories: Industry News, Medicare Supp./Adv., and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

LTC Teleconference Recording – Common Application Declines

We appreciate your attendance and enjoyed answering all your questions at the fourth LTC underwriting teleconference. During the call you heard from Demerri Bond, LTC Underwriting Manager, and Allen Gregoire, our Director of Underwriting for all individual health. Didn’t make it? That’s OK! We recorded it for you. All teleconferences are available for download on Sales Professional Access under Sales Tools > Product Education. Listen to last week’s teleconference now. Make sure to add the remaining bi-monthly teleconferences to your calendar.   Please email us suggestions on topics or questions you’d like answered before the next call at distribution.marketing@mutualofomaha.com.  
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Categories: Industry News, Long-Term Care, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Committed to Income Protection Since 1910

Disability income insurance should be considered primary in the asset protection market. It should always be on a producer’s mind when it comes to sound financial planning. Use this handy fact finder tool when visiting with clients to help ask the right questions and uncover the need for disability income insurance. View the Disability Income Insurance Fact Finder byclicking here or by clicking the image to the left.   Committed to Income Protection Since 1910   #goldencareagent #mutualofomaha
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Categories: Disability Income Insurance, Industry News, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Turn DI Objections into Sales

Whether you’re a new or seasoned producer selling disability income insurance you should be aware of reasons people think they don’t need this essential coverage. The key is to be prepared for anything a prospective client might say. Objection: “Nothing will happen to me. I don’t need DI.” It’s probably human nature to think like this. However, clients who raise this objection simply are not facing reality of losing their income. If your client missed three months’ worth of income, how would they pay their expenses? As an insurance professional looking out for your client’s best interests, it’s your job
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Categories: Disability Income Insurance, Industry News, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Holiday Telephone Solicitation Bans for the Month of November 2019

Please be aware of the following holidays requiring a holiday telephone solicitation ban for the month of November. On Friday, November 1, 2019: Louisiana prohibits unsolicited marketing calls to residents in observance of All Saints’ Day On Monday, November 11, 2019: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Rhode Island and Utah prohibit unsolicited marketing calls to residents in observance of Veterans’ Day On Thursday, November 28, 2019: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Rhode Island and Utah prohibit unsolicited marketing calls to residents in observance of Thanksgiving On Friday, November 29, 2019: Louisiana prohibits unsolicited marketing calls to residents in observance of Acadian Day Holiday Telephone
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Categories: Industry News and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).