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Re: Becoming a health insurance agent
When you work with a life GA, you contract with each carrier separately (usually the GA will do this for you and your agent ID will be reflective of that GA). So if you contract for MoO with a GA they will assign you an agent number for that carrier so that it is done through them and that will be your number with that carrier.
You can do other products or carriers with any GA you want. For example you could have MoO through this GA, West Coast Life through another GA and so on.
I have found that once you have a good GA with a good portfolio of carriers/products, you will most likely want to use that GA for all of the business.
Might be a dumb question, but.... If a Life company I am trying to get appointed with is requiring me to go through a GA, do I have any other ties with that GA besides that one company that directed me to them? I ask because the GA that sent me the paperwork told me, "Mutual of Omaha is great and we have a lot of other companies too". Got me thinking that maybe this is a bigger commitment than I thought it actually was. For instance, if I sign with him and I write a health plan or medicare supplement, will he be involved in that as well or only the Mutual of Omaha life plan I contacted him about originally?
Thank you for this post. It is really good and I really appreciate the time you and others on this board put into helping out us lost newbies.
Sincerely,
GPaq
When you work with a life GA, you contract with each carrier separately (usually the GA will do this for you and your agent ID will be reflective of that GA). So if you contract for MoO with a GA they will assign you an agent number for that carrier so that it is done through them and that will be your number with that carrier.
You can do other products or carriers with any GA you want. For example you could have MoO through this GA, West Coast Life through another GA and so on.
I have found that once you have a good GA with a good portfolio of carriers/products, you will most likely want to use that GA for all of the business.