Canada Life Life Insurance Reviews

I've recently helped my parents dispose of a life insurance policy and the disposition date was in late May. The insurer wanted after the disposition date was cleared and sent to CRA, that they will withhold money until the insurance holder can prove whether he is a resident or non-resident. That they waited until the form can be processed for three months before surrendering money in September is one problem, that they still collected for those three months for the policy that was already disposed of in May is another, more dastardly move. They just swindled the policy owner who dutifully paid the premiums for more than a decade out of half a thousand dollars. I will tell everyone that this company is a scam and a fraudulent business.

About 7 years I payed life and health insurance for me and my wife. Canada Life did not pay me any red penny when my wife died, did not pay me when I lost vision on my right eye, did not pay me protection for credit line. This is extremely bad company. I do not advise to anybody pay them any money. Can somebody help me with good lawyer to start claim this company in court?

...If you take on a Canada Life policy, you'd make sure you have a good insurance agent, if not Canada Life is not going to help you at all. I have come to realize that my agent is not better than an used car salesperson, promised me the world before taking my money, ensuring me if I cancel within 30 days she would personally refund me the money if Canada Life does not. When I got pressured into signing up for the products with Canada Life, the agent back dated the cheques (totally over $4500), for reason unknown to me, and cheques cashed immediately. When I contacted the agent to cancel the policies the agent delayed on submitting the cancellation request number of times till I demanded confirmation of the cancellation of all policies I took on. I sat quietly for over a month, there was no sign of any refund, I then contacted the agent for the first time inquiring about the refunds. The agent told me she would check with Canada Life, I never heard from after. I texted twice, called and left message once, she ignored me. One morning I found her on the phone unexpectedly, she then told me she had traced the refund, not to worry and it might take a few months but I would 'eventually' get it. The casual careless attitude of the agent upset me. The same day she forwarded me a stream of emails asking her whether I have received my cheques without the agent’s reply. I waited few more days with no feedback after asking to confirm the address where the refund cheques would have been sent to. I then decided to write Canada Life New directly. All I got back was the email from the New Business Associate of the Individual Insurance New Business department telling the financial institute to which my agent belongs to to advise her not to allow the client to contact Canada Life directly. It seems that Canada Life does not care what the agents and financial institutions out there representing them doing to their clients and policy holders. When something goes wrong clients of Canada Life would have nowhere to turn to. They don't care, don't want to be contacted. When they take your money, they want it 2 days ago, when they have to pay or return your money, they don't want to hear from you. If you have anything to do Canada Life, God Helps You!!!

I purchased life and disability insurance through RBC home protector and their provider is Canada Life. Last November I had a back injury and I have been of work for almost 7 months now. I applied for the disability insurance I was paying for and thought I had. Once I sent all my medical info regarding my injury to Canada Life, they wanted more info from my family doctor going back 2years from date I purchased the insurance. They found a medication prescribed to me in that 2year period . The medication was for something other than anything they indicated on the application form questions I answered when I applied for the insurance. They declined me coverage for my back injury and cancelled my coverage for disability. I appealed there decision with a letter from my doctor explaining the medication treatment and they still declined me a second time. I took it to a lawyer last week. He said Canada Life is treating me unfairly and that I stand a great chance of settling this in my favor. Problem is he said I could end up paying him more than the coverage I would get back from Canada Life. At least he was honest. More than I can say for this insurance company.

I am so frustrated that I had been paying double the amount and the payments were never consistently the same. I added it up and I have been close to $200.00 a month for a couple who are young and non-smokers. Once I had begun to review other companies it was nearly half.

Would you all be willing to file for a class action lawsuit against this company? It doesn’t seem that they do anything that they are supposed to and they just take your money.
My parents had been paying $75 a month for the past 20 years for life insurance, now suddenly they are told they need to pay $720 a month!!! Who can afford that?

The wait time sometimes is more than an hour. the process of payments are long and they process the claims in different category and and they don' let you, so on the 2nd claim you have to go to same process of calling them.
They have broken links on the website which they don't even know. Very disappointed with this company

As a practitioner, we deal with this company a lot, specifically direct billing through Telus Health. Here are two areas of improvement in which they know about, but seem to have no interest in improving upon.

1. Commonly the billing submission is termed as "under review" and not accepted. However, their software and practitioner interface does not allow you the check on the "under review" submission and requires you to call.

2. There must only be a total of two people working the helpline, and they must have severe cognitive delays because in the rare chance you get to talk to someone without waiting an hour, they promptly transfer you to the wrong department or drop your call.

In all honesty, this seems like an intentional way of reducing the volume of claims and saving the company money- ie- Annoy the shit out the practitioners so they won't direct bill, and hope the cost of paying out of pocket for some patients (then being reimbursed) is prohibitive for some of the poor souls that have their subpar insurance.

PS- 1/5 stars was given because 0/5 stars was not an option

My wife is on long-term disability with Canada Life. She gets her payment on or after the 4th of the month. If, for example, the 3rd is a Friday, she will not get paid until Monday. These guys are the only provider we deal with that does this. I myself am on two private pensions and, if the beginning of the month is on a weekend, I will have my payments by Friday. A couple of times my wife has waited until the 6th or 8th of the month to get paid. When contacted, Canada Life more or less says that we’ll pay you when we want, no matter any bills or other payments one has to deal with in regular life. On another note, my wife has gone through at least 9 or 10 “case managers” in the past two years. Her employer opted to contract this company for benefits, etc. Before retiring I was with another insurer from my employer and they never, ever refused or questioned a claim.

Already paid for my insurance two months ago and have had to pay out of pocket for all meds since. They had an issue with my account (that of course they couldn't reach out to me about) so I had to call multiple different people to fix... And they acted like it was MY FAULT, even though my school has no access to their files... Not sure if I will be opting in to pay for this service next term, as what's the point when you have to pay for your medications for 2/3 months already. I am in school and so having to pay for expensive medication is stressful as I am not working. Also, the guy on the chat was very rude and unempathetic.