Critical illness

Insurance

CRA warns against circular CI insurance scheme

Manoeuvre aims to dodge taxes with offshore insurance

By Jonathan Got |December 4, 2025

1 min read

Estate Planning

Help clients prepare for a serious illness

Clients may be more open to discussing serious illness planning than death planning

By Melissa Shin |September 26, 2023

4 min read

Advisor's Edge

Mother considers assisted dying upon Alzheimer’s diagnosis

What's the advisor's role?

By Suzanne Yar Khan |April 5, 2023

6 min read

Planning and Advice

Tips for two tough conversations with clients

Care needs, living benefits were topics at IFB’s fall summit

By Michelle Schriver |November 9, 2022

3 min read

Living Benefits

Disputing when critical illness insurance is payable

Former cabinet minister John Manley lost a case contesting a policy's "triggering event"

By Doug Carroll |January 28, 2020

3 min read

Industry

New site offers online access to insurance products

PolicyAdvisor allows users to search for life insurance, critical illness insurance and mortgage protection

By Staff |April 17, 2019

1 min read

Industry

This advisor never thought he’d need CI coverage. Then he did

What he learned after becoming a statistic

By Pierre Ghorbanian |February 3, 2017

5 min read

Industry

Clients unprepared for cost of critical illness

55% are concerned about an inability to meet living expenses should they be impacted by a serious illness.

By Staff |February 2, 2016

1 min read

Life

Overcome objections to Critical Illness offers

Word of mouth tells me that around 5% of all CI offers are actually taken. Why?

By Chris Paterson |December 7, 2015

5 min read

Life

Canadians worry about family finances after death

Half of Canadians worry their deaths will jeopardize their family’s financial stability

By Staff |August 5, 2015

1 min read

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