Enhancement allows customers to convert CI coverage to long-term care insurance
Not all medical leaves work out successfully. Mac Dickson, 58, a registered financial planner with Dickson’s Complete Tax Service in Orillia, Ont., was forced to put his financial planning business on hold in 2000 when his kidney disease became too onerous. Without a contingency plan in place, he put his business in trust, splitting his […]
What would happen to your business if you got sick and had to take a year off?
More than 50% of Canadians are concerned about the financial impact of caring for a sick family member, according to survey conducted for the Canadian Cancer Society.Poll results also show that more than 60% of Canadians believe it is likely that they, or their spouse or partner, will be a caregiver to a sick family […]
A series of benchmark definitions for critical illness (CI) will change advisors‚ attitudes toward selling CI insurance, according to the company leading the push for change.The definitions were officially launched yesterday and introduced by reinsurer Munich Re Canada today at the World CI Conference in Toronto.The vast majority of advisors do not have critical illness […]
Speakers at critical illness insurance conference focus on client relationships
Network aims to give cancer patients access to support and information
But reinsurer Munich Re is set to introduce benchmark definitions to provide more consistency in the market
Awareness of the risks can help inform decisions about obtaining CI
Having money at the right time can make a very difficult period much more bearable