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Disability Insurance

Disability Insurance provides a monthly income in the event you are incapacitated, and incapable of working due to an injury or illness. Often called “Income Replacement Insurance”, this coverage is important for self-employed individuals.

Group Benefit Coverage

Group Insurance is an insurance plan that protects a group of people's financial security in one or more ways, such as offering low-cost life insurance or a dental plan for the self-employed. A group can comprise (or “be composed of”) members of an association, a company's employees, or professionals in a group such as lawyers or doctors.

Reduce Business Risk

Start-up firms and smaller companies are especially vulnerable to potentially devastating financial risk because they often lack big company sophistication and in-house risk-control expertise.


Term Insurance to Cover Your Mortgage

Mortgage insurance is creditor insurance where financial institutions offer to pay off the remainder of a mortgage if the mortgagor dies during the term of the mortgage.

Another strategy to achieve this uses personally owned life insurance, which gives you more flexibility insuring your mortgage liability. Compare the mortgage insurance your bank or financial institution uses for your mortgage creditor life insurance with buying your own personally owned term insurance.

Mortgage Life Insurance from the financial institution

  • Premiums can be much higher
  • The death benefit replaces only the remaining balance of your mortgage balance
  • Premiums do not reduce when your mortgage debt is reduced
  • The death benefit only pays off your remaining mortgage debt
  • The contract stipulates that the financial institution is the only life insurance beneficiary
  • You cannot alter the irrevocable beneficiary of the contract
  • The entire amount of life insurance is lost upon mortgage repayment, or when in default
  • The mortgage life insurance is not transferable to another financial institution or private lender
  • When you move your mortgage to another firm, you generally lose the coverage issued from an existing institution. If you have health concerns you may not be able to buy more coverage
  • Because so few health questions are required, underwriting is often done at time of claim, resulting in denied claims.

Creditor insurance may cover two parties who jointly mortgage their property. However, it pays only on the first death, even if the two were to die. When one spouse dies, creditor insurance no longer covers any survivors. In contrast, by owning your own insurance policy, two spouses or partners may each own separate life insurance death benefits. In the case where both parties die, double the benefit would be paid, thus adding increased value to the estate. If one survives, the coverage on that life continues.

Your own Term Insurance

  • You can set up multiple beneficiaries, including a fund to pay off some or all of your mortgage debt.
  • Beneficiaries can choose to not pay off the mortgage if they prefer to pay off higher interest debt
  • You can add or revoke beneficiaries.
  • Your life insurance face benefit amount does not shrink with a reducing mortgage debt, and can actually increase with some plans. Your coverage level is controlled by you.
  • Most term plans are convertible to permanent plans, without a medical exam, even if your health declines.
  • You needn't qualify for new mortgage life insurance if you move your mortgage to a new financial institution. You just continue using your existing term plan, which covers you regardless where your mortgage is.
  • Once your mortgage is repaid or reduced, you will have life insurance to cover other liabilities or for other estate planning purposes.
  • Personally owned life insurance can normally be converted to permanent insurance for the same or a lesser amount.
  • In most cases, you can reduce your coverage over time to ensure the proceeds pay your final expenses, removing financial burden from your loved ones.
  • Term insurance allows you to buy coverage applicable to your entire capital needs, in the event of death.
  • A custom life insurance plan often offers other optional benefits, such as riders that can include: life insurance coverage for children, an investment feature with tax advantages, disability coverage, critical illness coverage, or a bundled mixture of term and permanent life insurance.
  • Many plans offer level premiums for longer periods, and some life insurance plans can be prepaid.
  • You have more control over the cost of premiums, which can go up over time if you don't own and control the life insurance contract.
  • Your insurer underwrites your policy when you apply for it. Other mortgage life insurance from a financial institution offers you little control and may choose to underwrite your health history at claim time.

DISCLOSURES:

Insurance products and services are offered through Mertin Financial Inc.

Investment dealer dealing representatives (“investment advisors”) registered with Manulife Wealth Inc. offer stocks, bonds, and mutual funds.

The Manulife Bank Advantage Account is offered by Harold Mertin through referral arrangement with their insurance business Manulife Bank of Canada and is separate from Manulife Wealth Inc. product offerings.

Manulife Wealth Inc. is an indirectly, wholly-owned subsidiary of Manulife Financial Corporation (MFC). MFC owns The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company (MLI), a financial services organization offering a diverse range of life and health insurance protection products, estate planning, investment and banking solutions through a multi-channel distribution network. MLI owns Manulife Wealth Inc., and Manulife Wealth Insurance Services Inc. MLI also owns Manulife Bank of Canada, a federally chartered Schedule 1 bank, which in turns owns Manulife Trust Company, a federally chartered trust company.


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