Manulife Disability Insurance Reviews

Been diagnosed with 2 serious illnesses and have been declined twice for short term disability. After first decline was told by case worker I would be approved when I appealed. This did not happen. They told me if I was sick for a year I could keep working. When I said you are telling me to go against my Dr.s wishes and they said oh no were are not. We are just telling you we won't support your claim. They said just keep working , it does not matter if you get worse. Case worker is in Toronto. Scam artists. Disgusting way to treat people that pay for benefits. Have spoken to other people who have had serious illnesses and they were ordered back to work too.

with full medical through ManuLife . illness left me unable to work, letters from heart specialist, doctor, respiratory specialist and unknown kidney function and blood pressure, I am only 33 and 10 years in a management position. Manulife refused benefits immediately. Appeal process refused and now 2 years later a lawyer (who used to work for Manulife) has gotten it to the arbitration stage. He knows their mandate is to refuse legitimate claims because sick people cannot go through the hoops and they hope to drop them along the way. I have lost my income, unable to work, gone on welfare, and am homeless now. When it goes to arbitration, and not to court, there will be no public record or statistics as to their refusals. 2 years and still waiting to hear, has destroyed my overall health and career.

Was an RN working with teens in psych
-after filling out all required paperwork, I submitted before my mandatory disability ran out with the understanding that I would have piece of mind and begin picking up the pieces.
-a letter comes back a week after LTD deposit expected
-meet with your case worker over the phone (lets call her Poozan F.)
-First, the woman is on VACATION for a week
-I get her on the phone, she appears to be doing 5 other things while half listening to me on speaker phone
-I give her the same information my doctor and I had filled out.
-Another week passes, this woman calls me and starts asking me additional questions, to which I answer...no problem.
-this woman sends...get this...medical review to be assessed by a psychiatrist...addresses it to my gp
-I was never emailed these forms, doc had to copy for me
-because I am now weeks without an income, my anxiety increases, I have to borrow from all over, credit ruined, motorcycle on the way out
-I make a plea to Poozan's manager, who is equally useless, says they need my GP to fill out psych-specific paperwork for my claim
- I have a nervous breakdown, vomit, headache, catatonically depressed for 2 days
-my psych doctor doesn't fill the paperwork because it's not adressed to him
-Finally convince my gp to help me fill the paperwork, much to her frustration and we send it ALL
-Ive not had an income for a month and a half at this point, and resorted to pleading with these corporate, soulless, automatons
-"we understand your frustration{because it is our job to}, but we can't do anything about it {because our job is to make money - not concern ourselves with human impact}
-I can no longer pay for my antidepressants
-two weeks go by not hearing a damn thing
-call the manager, who tells me something about rush being put on it {if that is rush in 2016, we are in trouble] and says her underling Poozan will fill me in tomorrow
-CLAIM denied?
-Why? Because we actually sent your psych doc the paperwork, but because we failed to notify you, there was no reason for a doc who sees hundreds of patients a week to fill out forms without context.
-Why? because after sending your entire medical chart to us, there was a mention of past use of marijuana, Poozan kept asking me if it was addiction, and I said no, I am abstinent cause Im BROKE
-that didn't stop addiction being reason number two
-so Poozan gave me her corporate script after I yet again tried to deliver some human context in their system of manufactured delay
-surely I couldn't be the only one?

Apparently Manulife, Sun Life, DesJardin or any insurance company that has a high end solidified deal with a large corporation has no incentive to please it's individual members, and being a business, manufactured delay is more money quarterly, creates more time for more reasons for claims to be denied, and when all of this fails, evidenced instances of folk not getting what they are entitled to by appeal 3.

- my nursing flame has all but been extinguished by first the americanization of our beloved health system, second by an ambitious wolf paid to guard the veteran sheep of the unit, and an insurance company that delays you into ruined credit, loss of possessions, or in my case, having to move to a cheaper unit.

Manulife MANUFACTURES delay, to make YOU do all the paperwork and put together the appointments, because the creatures that work there earn their bonuses of the BACKS of nurses, who had no choice in which coverage their hospital subscribes to.

Manulife employees, you are the scourge of the earth and the opposite of what humanity is as understood in the art of nursing. May you never need to ironically use your own services in a time of need.

-with the last of my nursing flame, my best advice is to keep yourself healthy, and never subject yourself to this system unless absolutely necessary.

peace

My daughter started a new job with a company whose benefit plan is provided by Manulife. During her first 3-month probation period she visited her doctor and received a prescription for anxiety. Six months after she started her job she required hospital care for a mental health disorder. Since she visited her doctor and received a prescription drug during her first 3 months of employment, Manulife denied her long-term disability benefits due to her having a "pre-existing condition". She lost 9 months of disability benefits. Manulife self-promotes itself as supporting mental health initiatives at the same time that they deny benefits to mental health patients. Public, corporate image is more important to Manulife than supporting its clients with the benefits that their clients' premiums are paying for. It would likely follow that if a cancer patient started a new job with a company whose benefit plan was provided by Manulife, they would have to stop their cancer treatments for their first 3 months of employment or they too would be deemed to have a "pre-existing condition" that would negate long-term disability benefits if the cancer required extensive hospital care. Manulife focuses on their profits first and caring about their clients last.

They just don't want to pay STD even though I'm not feeling well and tons of Doctors Notes and specialist... They are the worst.. Manulife sucks!!!

DO NOT CHOOSE MANULIFE INSURANCE FOR ANYTHING!! They are snakes! They don't care if you have doctors notes and proof indicating that you are disabled. THEY WILL DO AND SAY ANYTHING TO MAKE SURE YOU DON'T RECEIVE MONEY OWED. I Am in the middle of an appeal for short term disability benefits and have been through hell trying to get my benefits. my doctor has sent them more then 3 notes stating i am unable to work and their case workers (who are apparently doctors too???) keep overruling my doctors decision and are trying to tell med that I am able to work. I Am in a cast and sling and cant even tie my own shoes yet they are saying i am able to operate a crane. worst company ive ever had to deal with.

When my short term disability ran out with another company
My longterm took over and they go by the name Manudeath
In my home!
Paid me 7 days longterm and have submitted countless reports
Doctors, specialists all in my defense
Coming up on 15 months of running thru there torture chamber
And still nothing they are killing me now
Can't afford prescriptions or replacement parts for medical aid machine
This cabal of non human entities need to be deported out of the
Country
Or better yet off planet!
They are aliens afterall

What a useless insurance company. Don't even hope about collecting anything. Especially ltd insurance. They seem to deny everything.

I have been on short-term disability for over 3 months and have yet to see any money. There is always something that still needs to be done but they don't tell you about it, you just get a letter in the mail weeks later. They make you go through one representative, who is never in the office. When you call the main number, no one knows anything and they say they will get someone to call you but they don't. They sure do take their time to give a paycheck even though they make you give authorization for them to take out insurance premiums.

I submitted a claim for short term disability due to excessive stress at work that has been accumulating for over 4 years. I was reluctant to even take some time off because I felt guilty for feeling the way I felt, having anxiety attacks and insomnia. When an agent contacted me to review my file, not only did she make me feel even more guilty, she was condescending repeating that it's also very busy where she worked. I understand that they need to verify every claim but the lack of empathy is outstanding. I've been making progress with my therapist and now, I'm having anxiety attacks again because I'm back to thinking that there is something wrong with me for not being top shape emotionally.