NAILBA Perspectives Spring 2020 | Page 17

CARRIER MESSAGE Like you, we at American National are taking COVID-19 seriously and are doing everything we can to protect our employees while continuing to provide excellent service to our agents and policyholders. Our recent response to hurricanes Ike and Harvey have demonstrated our ability to continue to service you and your clients during a crisis and have strengthened our disaster recovery preparations. • Our teams are actively monitoring, assessing and responding to the situation as it develops. • We have taken proactive steps to prevent any interruption to our business for our policyholders and agents. • We have already made adjustments to our accelerated underwriting programs to accelerate 50% more life insurance applications without medical exams. • We have created additional training materials and hosted online seminars to help our agents that are new to remote and electronic insurance sales. • As a reminder, we do not require agents to have face to face contact with their clients in order to sell life insurance and annuities. • Just like with every other financial crisis over the past 115 years, we remain financially strong, stable and secure and are well positioned to meet these challenging times. Please visit img.anicoweb.com or call 888-501-4043 for the latest information and our constantly evolving response. As always and especially during times like this, we thank you for trusting us and giving us the opportunity to earn your business every single day. David A. Behrens, CLU, ChFC, LLIF, LUTCF Executive Vice President, Independent Marketing Group American National Insurance Company President and CMO American National Life Insurance Company of New York American National Insurance Company, headquartered in Galveston, Texas is licensed to conduct business in all states except New York. Business is conducted in New York by American National Life Insurance Company of New York, headquartered in Glenmont, New York. Each company has financial responsibility for only the products and services it issues. Form Number: IMG22567 img.anicoweb.com | 888-501- 4043 www.nailba.org 17