What is Term life insurance?

 

Term life insurance is a simple form of life insurance to help you financially protect your family if your surviving family needed access to cash to:

  • make the payments or pay the outstanding balance of your mortgage
  • fund your children’s tuition and other education costs
  • cover everyday expenses
  • pay for any other short-term financial obligations

 

The amount of your coverage is for a set period (the term). Your premiums stay the same for that term. At the end of the term, coverage may be renewed by paying a different premium. Coverage ends at a certain age.

 

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With Term Life insurance plans from BMO Insurance, you’ll get:

 

  • A choice of coverage options

     

    • 10, 15, 20, 25, and 30 year term options with the option to renew your coverage for another term. Coverage expires at age 85.
    • Choose how much coverage you need from $100,000 to $30 million

     

  • Added flexibility

     

    • You can exchange a 10 year term policy for a new 15, 20, 25 or 30 year term policy, if your needs changefootnote 1
    • You can exchange a 15 year term policy for a new 20, 25 or 30 year term policy, if your needs changefootnote 1
    • You also have the option to convert your term policy to permanent life insurance without any further medical exams or health questionnairesfootnote 2

Optional Extras

 

Critical Illness Benefit

 

If you’re 60 and under at the time of application, you can add this option to receive a lump sum benefit to spend however you need it if you’re diagnosed with a covered critical illness..

 

 

Waiver of Premium

 

If you’re 55 and under at the time of application, you can add this option so you won’t have to pay your premiums while you’re Totally DisabledIf the Life Insured has a gainful occupation, "totally disabled" or "total disability" means the Life Insured's incapacity, caused by disease or bodily injury, to perform any and every duty pertaining to such occupation, and after twenty-four (24) months of any one continuous period of total disability, it means the Life Insured's incapacity to engage in any gainful occupation for which the Life Insured is or may become reasonably fitted by education, training or experience.

If the Life Insured has no gainful occupation, "totally disabled" or "total disability" means the Life Insured's incapacity, caused by disease or bodily injury, to engage in any daily activity of living.
Total disability will not exist while the Life Insured is engaged in any gainful occupation.
provided you have been Totally Disabled for at least 6 consecutive months.

What's not covered

Your beneficiary will not receive benefits if:

  • You provide false, incorrect or incomplete information during the application process.
  • Your death results from suicide within two years from the date that your policy comes into effect. We will refund your premiums in this case.

 

Critical illness

 

No benefits will be paid for a covered critical illness that results from a condition that manifested itself or for which you received treatment before the policy became effective.

You will also not receive benefits if the critical illness results from:

  • Attempted suicide or self-inflicted injuries.
  • The commission or attempt to commit a criminal offence.
  • The use of drugs or operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol.

Waiver of Premium

 

No premium will be waived if the total disability results from:

  • Attempted suicide or self-inflicted injuries.
  • The commission or attempt to commit a criminal offence.
  • The use of drugs or operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol.

 

This information is only a summary. Actual terms, exclusions and limitations are explained in the policy.

Please speak to an insurance advisor about other available Optional Extras.

1You may exchange the full or partial amount of the Sum Insured of any eligible Term 10 plan to a Term 15, 20, 25 or 30 policy, subject to certain limits within the first 5 years after your policy has been in effect.

2Any time before the age of 71 you can convert your insurance policy to any eligible permanent policy with no medical exams or health questionnaires.



 

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