North American – New Underwriting and Electronic Application Part…

Introducing WriteAwayAccelerated Underwriting  North American is excited to introduce WriteAway, a new process for underwriting for your healthiest clients and currently available for ADDvantage Term (watch for availability on permanent products in the future). WriteAway will be available starting January 29, 2018. DOWNLOAD the bulletin to learn about the potential benefits, details on how it works, and to access marketing materials. New Individual Life Insurance Electronic Application Part 1 Effective January 27, 2018, a new Individual Life Insurance Application Part 1 will be available for the SimpleSubmit electronic application process.  DOWNLOAD the bulletin for a list of new application form numbers by plan and state as well as to learn about additional formatting and text changes that were made.

Lincoln Benefit – Agent Services Change

Agent Services for LBL Life Commissions and Licensing Moving to Third-Party Administrator   Lincoln Benefit Life (LBL) is transferring agent-related services from Allstate to Alliance-One Services, Inc. on January 22, 2018. These changes apply to the agent maintenance, licensing and commission functions. As a reminder, Alliance-One already provides policy-related service for most of LBL’s life policies.   What’s Changing? * Alliance-One will handle agent commissions for life insurance policies (excluding GenBuilder) sold by LBL agents, including policies that continue to be serviced at Allstate. * Licensing and agent maintenance for LBL agents (independent agents in the MBA channel) will be administered by Alliance-One. * Life commissions will be paid monthly instead of weekly. * Life commission statements will no longer be mailed and will be available to download from life.lbl.com. * Broker-Dealers or agencies paying life commissions direct to registered representatives will need to download commission statements from life.lbl.com to obtain the commission activity for those representatives. * Assignees will no longer receive life commission statements. * For assistance with registering on the website, call 888-338-1038. For all other licensing and commission inquiries, email LBL_Comm@dxc.com or call 844-768-6777.   Important Dates * January 22, 2018: Agent-related services transition to Alliance-One and new registrations on life.lbl.com are available for viewing commission statements. * January 26, 2018: First monthly LBL life commission payment processed at Alliance-One.    Commission Processing * Commissions will be processed on the third Friday of each month, or next business day if the process date falls on a holiday; payments will be released from LBL’s bank within 3-5 business days following the process date. * The current payment mode on file, check or electronic funds transfer (EFT), will remain in place. * Commissions for LBL fixed and variable annuity contracts, and long-term care policies are NOT changing.  * Any processes relating to LBL variable annuity contracts and long-term care business at LifeCare will not be affected by these changes.  For more information, visit the News page on LBL.com.