Manulife Life Insurance Reviews

I have been contributing to a life insurance policy with Manulife for 20 plus years, $175 per month for a $100K policy. Yes, I know, a ridiculously high premium!
I quit smoking 8 or 9 years ago and thought I would now qualify for a reduced premium so contacted Manulife to discuss, yes, we'll send you a form to complete. The form I received was a questionnaire approximately 50 pages long!
I was then subject to an extensive medical examination by a nurse appointed by Manulife and I have just received the results of this examination which, considering my age and health background, were excellent on all counts, (I had a heart attack seven years ago and required stents), great news I thought!
My insurance agent contacted me several days ago and informed me Manulife will not adjust my premium down due to my having a heart attack, but if I am now in excellent health and live a clean active lifestyle why would my request be denied?
Needless to say, I am extremely disappointed with this response and would advise anyone looking for insurance to use due diligence.
I think it's time to remove Manulife from my investment portfolio.

You pay for your benefits yet they ask for a doctor's note every time you want to go for a massage or chiropractor even through what you pay for. This company is a scam.
For someone that has a back problem, it is incredibly time-consuming for me to go to the doctor to get the diagnosis every time I want to use my benefits. DONT waste your time with Manulife.

Company change policy without customer knowledge denied me from my son medication, hospital bills and eyeglass for strabismus. Customer service is not helpful better go to another company 150.00 x 12 but basically, I don’t get benefits.

Not only do claims reimbursements typically take longer than 7 days, but the customer service is also terrible. That is if you can even get through to an agent on their customer support line.
What absolutely floors me is that insurance companies like Manulife make millions if not billions of dollars a year and yet they can't properly fund a call support centre.

Our company has Manulife and if I could change them I would in a heartbeat. Every time I need a question answered it takes a week or more just o get through they care about money and not about the companies or people.
This time around I have been trying since 2021 to get in touch with them and they put you on hold for more than 2 hours and then hang u on you.
This is a really bad company

Hello,
I tried to call to assist me because I forgot my plan contract number and wait for 3 hours but still no luck to talk to someone. Very frustrated and upset because Manulife is a big name and if this is their customer service then where to go.
Thank you

They put me on hold for an hour just to go back to the main menu, I only wanted help to set up my account. This is completely ridiculous!

They don't help in claims. My money has been stuck with them for 5 months and they don't respond at all! Neither through phone nor email. I hate their service.

Never in my life have I had such poor service from a company.
Phone wait time is 1 1/5 and never got answered. Had to hang up!
Updating my banking info was such a headache for lack of HUMAN ENGLISH!
Decided to get the app..... got locked out of my account.
I am so angry and just bitter over this. Still on hold now for another hour AND STILL NOT ANSWERING OMG!!!

We are seniors and have paid into life insurance with Manulife since 2001. In the month of October 2021, we noted a payment of over $900 was taken out of our bank account on Sept 28, 2021, without authorization or permission from Manulife. There was nothing in writing notifying us that the monthly renewal premium would increase from $322.74 to $911.70 per month. It was shocking that this was 40 percent of our pension money that month which threw all our monthly budget out of whack!
When contacting Manulife we were tossed about 4 different people over several days and hours on the phone. They refused to put our money back into our account for 15 business days! We cancelled both our policies.
Money was put back on October 15, 2021. The money was removed from our account on September 28, 2021, which was 18 days after.