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What are the benefits of buying life insurance online?

When you buy life insurance online, the application is simple, convenient, and safe.
Sun Life offers straightforward coverage you can apply for on your own time. No appointments needed.

How to get life insurance online

Help protect you and your loved ones with important insurance coverage. Here’s how:

Step 1: Answer quick questions

Answer a few quick questions and get a monthly rate for coverage from $5,000 to $2,000,000. Select the amount of coverage you want to see the monthly cost. You can adjust the coverage amount before you apply.

Step 2: Apply for coverage

Review the policy of your choice.* To finish your application, submit the rest of your details through the secure check out. This includes:

  • Contact details
  • Payment details
  • Answers to the health questionnaire, if applicable

Step 3: We’ll review the application

$25,000 or less:

Your coverage starts right away.

$50,000 or more:

Your policy starts the first day of the month after we approve your application.

* Applications for term life insurance coverage between $100,000 and $2 million may require more medical information.

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Frequently Asked Questions

The cost of life insurance varies depending on your age, assigned sex at birth, smoking status, and how much life insurance coverage you're getting. The more information you give related to your health, the less an insurer typically charges for life insurance. If you are in good health, we encourage you to consider applying for a product that asks health questions or get a medical exam.

If you have any questions, you can speak with a Sun Life advisor by calling 1-844-528-0583 between Monday - Friday 8 a.m. - 8 p.m. ET.

Yes, you’ll have to answer some questions if you apply for $50,000 or more of life insurance. Questions generally require a yes or no answer. The purpose is to learn your medical history and find out if we need more information about you. Depending on your answers, we may ask for a medical exam.

Does Sun Life offer life insurance online with no medical exams?

Yes, you can get 2 types of life insurance coverage online without any medical exams.

  • Guaranteed Life Insurance: No medical questions asked. No medical exam is needed.
  • Simplified Term Life Insurance: We only ask 3 health questions during the online application. No medical exam is needed.

You may be able to skip medical exams for Term Life insurance if you’re:

  • age 40 or below and healthy
  • between the ages of 41-50, healthy, and applying for coverage up to $500,000

Underwriting determines if you’re healthy based on the responses to the health questions on your application.

Life insurance provides you with a benefit for the unexpected. You may end up paying more than the actual death benefit that goes to your beneficiaries.

For example, you're aged 48 and purchase $25,000 of Sun Life Go Guaranteed Life Insurance for $60 per month. By the time you reach age 82, you'll have paid more than your total death benefit. If your death happens before age 82 you'll have paid less for your death benefit.

Coverage for $25,000 or less starts when you complete your application online.

For life insurance coverage between $50,000 and $2 million, your actual policy starts the first day of the month after we approve your application.

Yes, there are.

We won’t pay the death benefit if you take your own life, within the first two years, regardless of whether you had a mental illness or understood or intended the consequences of your action(s).

See all the exclusions and limitations by product in the sample policies below:

Sun Life Go Term Life Insurance sample policy 

Sun Life Go Simplified Term Life Insurance sample policy

Sun Life Go Guaranteed Life Insurance sample policy

You can cancel your policy at any time. If you cancel within 30 days of issue, we’ll refund your money.

To cancel your life insurance policy, mail a written request to:

Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada
P.O. Box 2001, Stn Waterloo
Waterloo, ON
N3J 0A3

If you need to change or cancel your application, give us a call.

  • Monday to Friday: 8 a.m. - 8 p.m. ET

A Sun Life advisor can address all your questions and help you figure out which insurance product best meets your financial needs.

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