Sun Life Health Insurance Reviews

They make things up to try and get you drop your claims and customer service people are rude from the first call...

I dealt with a very unprofessional and rude service provider on behalf of Sun Life. It's my personal belief their lack of knowledge and inability to address issues makes them unqualified to provide the services they attempt to provide to customers. Their advice for me to remove my investments and life insurance from Sun Life was not taken. I am looking forward to Sun Life appointing a qualified and professional representative who will provide professional and respectful service.

I have group benefits with this company and it's been a nightmare since day one. I mailed my claim forms to them that consisted of four documents. They separated them and entered my ONE claim as two. So I was told all my information is missing but it wasn't...they made the error. I spoke with someone who told me they fixed it and they would resubmit it for me. I hear nothing from them for two weeks, so I followed up to find out that it was rejected due to a date missing (had the month but not the day) on my receipt even though all the other forms submitted with it had the date electronically printed on them. I was asked to get a new copy and then use their stupid mobile app to resubmit the receipt. I did that. Hear nothing again. Follow up again and was told my information is missing...the SAME first problem was never actually fixed on their end. So I'm told to resubmit the same form again with a new reference number. I ask why it's needed because they have it, and they were incredibly rude and were just sending me their list of auto responses. I disconnected, and spoke with someone else who told me I could go on their website and just enter the claim amount - easy peasy...WHY DIDN'T THE OTHER ELEVENTY BILLION REPS I SPOKE WITH TELL ME THIS?!?! I'm incredibly reluctant that this suggestion of entering it online will work...but it's another waiting game, I guess. Save your time...save your employees' time and do not use these guys. They are just awful. You have to follow up all the time, otherwise, you won't know what's going on. They do not communicate anything to you. Of course not, right? Why would they want to reimburse you money? Apparently, to them, that's not what benefits are for...

This is not the first time I am calling Sun Life customer service and each time the representative isn’t helpful at all, they are short, almost rude and not willing to explain anything. My claim got denied and I called to find out why. I was told my claim online was missing information. When I asked if I missed any fields, I was told that I should mail out the claim instead!!! The rep didn’t want to tell me if I had missed any fields. Then I had to wait a few minutes to get a mailing address and the rep then went quiet!!! The worst experience ever!

If you try to make a large claim (say for a few months of medical claims), it is impossible because you will be logged out automatically after 8 minutes and an error message will say "logged out due to inactivity" as you are entering the data. That is not inactivity. Then you will get on the chat line for customer service and see you are number 75 in the queue and after 40 minutes, the chat will start and after 1 minute you will (guess what?) be logged out for inactivity as you are typing.

I have a public health plan with them and I dread every time I have a claim. Use Blue Cross, much better service. Very onerous process and forms. Seem to do everything to dissuade from claiming benefits. Rude staff.

Awful service and not a user-friendly website. Easier to deal with Revenue Canada than Sun Life Insurance bureaucrats. Terrible website and poor instructions. Avoid this company at all costs. Departments don't communicate information with each other. Do not send any documents at the Montreal address indicated on the claim form or they will lose your receipts or even destroy them. Pay more and get a better company. Anything but Sun Life. This company does not even deserve one star.

This is by far the worst company I have ever interacted with (in any industry, for anything).

They are currently charging me for vision insurance but do not have me in the system. Because they do not have me in the system, they say they can't be charging me. My paychecks say otherwise.

The customer service is slow, rude, and completely unknowledgeable.

They are inexpensive because in this case, you really do get what you pay for. The hours of time you spend trying to fix their mistakes is worth so much more than the money you "save". If you care about yourself, choose ANY other company.

The worst insurance provider that we have chosen for our company; it was a terrible decision and the staff is completely incompetent

Forget about the policies and rules that are agreed on upon contracting with Sun Life. They will do whatever they can to rip you off based on their own judgement, based on what's more convenient to them. They will say 'You are covered for this drug up to the reasonable and customary amount of the lowest priced equivalent drug', but THEY are not reasonable, so they will apply customary amount as they see fit. Time to process your payments is another joke. 3 to 4 weeks minimum after they receive the claim, which you still have to send via regular mail by the way. Well, I guess that's because it still is 2018 and we do not have many alternatives to paper, right?