Canada Life Life Insurance Reviews

Let's take it from the top.
Their staff are super unhelpful and have virtually no knowledge of their own services and assistance.
Their app is archaic at best and often refers you back to the website.
The website only offers PAPER MAIL SUBMISSIONS for the most common claims, in 2021! Absolutely absurd.
To save or use the claim PDFs, you need to contact their customer service for an administrative password before you can fill it out on your computer! Who does that?!
My employer decided to go with Canada Life for our insurance and benefits this year and everyone is so miserable about it. I've been working for nearly 30 years with my fair share of benefits coverage and Canada Life is easily, EASILY the worst I've ever experienced.

Rude, ignorant, unprofessional, unknowledgeable, unfriendly, unhelpful, unapproachable service representatives on the phone. Pay them more, train them to do a better job. Customer satisfaction matters. Canada Life- The worst insurance company ever.

I can’t express how frustrating it is to try to get information from this company! I can’t even get representatives to give me valid names or employee numbers so conversations can not be referenced and I’m always left trying to answer “who told you that “. Right now I’ve been in a queue on the phone for over 2 hours because my sign-in information mysteriously doesn’t work. I think a large part of their business model relies on frustrating the clients so much that they give up...

Hi, my Ltd claim is in progress and overall very much dissatisfied with their customer support. Overall response is very slow.

I had to just through hoops but I didn't even get reimbursed for my orthotics when my plan said they would be covered...

I have left several messages with an agent to call me back. I have a time-sensitive issue. Just need an answer to a simple question.

I filled for short term disability for depression and anxiety and health issues the company after receiving the forms that I sent before the deadline reviewed them and told me they needed more information which I provided. After providing the information and making me wait more than 2 weeks they managed to deny the claim saying there was still not enough information... So I had to go see my doctor again and provide them with more information and they kept the same thing and said their decision was final because the date I should have provided the information was too late. It is extremely hard at this time to see doctors because of all the restrictions due to COVID... I really feel like they are not human and really don't care about people. I would advise not to take any insurance with them for the experience I got. It's not enough to have to deal with my health issue every day. I feel like my insurance company restricting my employer to pay me is like saying we are giving up on you and don't care. Thank you Canada Life I hope your agents feel like they really contribute to helping people by denying their claims when they really need it.

My father had life insurance policies with Canada Life and another company, a week after his passing I notified both companies, six weeks later and Canada Life has yet to send me any information about the settlement of his policy. There have been repeated calls, excuses that due to COVID they are behind in their claims departments. I have demanded and called supervisors who tell in five weeks I should hear something, now it’s up to another two weeks before someone contacts me. Latest call I have been told that they will be contacting me via email because the process is so slow when dealing through Canada Post. In the meantime the other company took my information over the phone on the same day I contacted Canada Life and we received the information we needed nine days later and sixteen days after we returned the forms that the company paid out the policy. Now, this other company had to deal with COVID also and sent everything through Canada Post and yet Canada Life can’t even begin the claim! Tonight I found this forum and I realize that Canada Life stalls regardless of the type of claim and COVID.

In 2010 I was offered what seemed like a great deal on an insurance policy with Canada Life, through Canadian Tire. It is a Canadian Tire Financial Services Term Life Insurance policy for $150,000. I purchased the policy on March 8, 2010, because I wanted to leave a substantial gift to my nephew. The term of the policy is 5 years and the premium increases every 5 years accordingly. Thus far, I have paid into the policy an approximate amount of $5324.00. My premiums will increase as follows: April 2020 - March 2025 annual premium for the 5 year period of $4020 April 2025 - March 2030 annual premium for the 5 year period of $6909 April 2030 - March 2035 annual premium for the 5 year period of $11526.60 April 2035 - November 2038 (75th birthday) annual premium for the 68 month period $16,368.28 1. The plan has a provision called the Benefit Reductions at Older Ages. The provision states the following: On the Insured's 71st birth date the coverage shall reduce by 20% of the Amount of insurable show on this certificate and shall further reduce another 20% of the original Amount of Insurance shown on this certificate each birth date thereafter. Each amount of insurance with the value of $50,000 for an individual who has attained the age of 71 shall reduce by $10,000.00 on the individual's 71st birth date and shall further reduce by another 20% of the original Amount of Insurance on each birth date thereafter until age 75. That means my $150,000.00 policy will be worth $30,000 if I should live to the age of 75 and one day. However, I will have paid approximately $44,147 for the policy if I should live to age 75 and one day. This cannot be right. I am effectively paying 50% more than the policy will be worth should I reach the age of 75; the policy is worthless. 2.In 2010 the average life expectancy for a female in Canada was 81.25 years. Today the average life expectancy for a female in Canada is 85.5 years. The projected life expectancy for a female in Canada by the time I am 75, in 2038 will be 86.6. If the average life expectancy is far greater than the age of 75, the plan will only payout to those who die prior to that age. According to the Canadian Institute of Health Information, life expectancy in Canada in 1961 was 71 years old. 3. Premiums will continue to be paid from the date of my 71st birth date until the age of 75. However, the amount of Insurance is reduced greatly. In my case, the total amount of insurance will reduce from $150,000 to $30,000 over the course of the 4 years between the ages of 71 and 75. The total amount of annual premiums for the 68 month period between my 71st birthday and the age of 75 will be $16,386 The total amount I will have paid to Canada Life as of November 2038 will be approximately, $44, 147 for a plan that will only be worth $30,000 as of the same date. During my call today to Canada Life I asked the agent about converting my plan to a permanent plan and taking the amount I have invested in to the plan to a better plan. He initially told me that I couldn't do it because the plan is not a convertible plan. I said there was nothing advising me of this in any of my documents. He then relented and said, "off the record, you can convert the plan but you have to call in and threaten to cancel and then we can offer you conversion." When I asked what my new premiums would be he said he, "couldn't tell me because he can only access that information once the request to cancel and convert has been submitted." Also, once the conversion request is submitted my current term plan would be cancelled and it cannot be reactivated. I could effectively be without any insurance plan whatsoever, despite the fact that I have already paid over $5000 to Canada Life, thus far. I simply want to be able to convert to a plan that does not excessively increase the rate of my premiums, transfer the amount invested into the current plan into a more reasonable insurance plant, and to have a life insurance plan that is equitable. The plan they have sold me is a farce. It has no cash value, it cannot be easily or transparently converted, and it will eventually cost me 50% more than the policy will be worth should I live out the life of the policy. This is a disappointment as well as a deception on the part of Canada Life.

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.