Overview
Insurance solutions built for dental professionals. Delivered with expert advice.
Tailored exclusively with dental professionals and their families in mind, CDSPI offers a broad range of insurance plans to meet your personal and professional needs. And our experienced insurance advisors provide advice on how to protect you and your practice against potential risks.
CDSPI represents the buying power of the Canadian dental community, which means we:
- Offer insurance solutions that are competitively priced;
- Form strategic arrangements with leading insurance companies; and
- Develop customized insurance solutions for the dental community.
Our expertise and sole focus on dental professionals make us the insurance source that the dental community has come to know and trust.
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Our Featured Insurance Plans
For complete descriptions of our insurance plans and important material such as applications and forms, please use the table below.
Basic Life
In the event of your death, this plan provides your beneficiary with up to $2 million to assist in meeting financial obligations, such as their debts, expenses or taxes.
Family Life
Family Life provides you with up to $1 million in the event of the death of your spouse, to meet financial obligations, funeral expenses, the costs of childcare or other expenses. You can also get coverage for dependent and non-dependent children and those in post-secondary studies.
Permanent Life - Term 100
Term 100 offers life-long financial support to your dependents and helps meet your estate planning needs. The plan is called “Term 100” because you pay the same premium each year until age 100.
Permanent Life - Whole Life and Universal Life
Whole Life and Universal Life insurance protects your wealth and helps you meet your long-term financial and estate planning goals. These policies allow you to combine lifetime insurance with a tax-efficient accumulation of assets for your estate.
Partner Insurance (Life)
Partner Insurance helps you offset financial losses resulting from the death of a key person in your practice, or to buy out a deceased partner’s interest in the practice. It offers two types of life insurance – Basic Life Insurance and Term 100 Life Insurance, both underwritten by Manulife.
Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D)
Provides you with compensation to help cope with the financial consequences of a serious accidental injury. Also provides a benefit to your beneficiary if you die in an accident.
DisabilityGuard™
Built with practicing dentists in mind, DisabilityGuard™ insurance helps protect your lifestyle and earning power from a disabling illness or injury that prevents you from working.
CDSPI Retiree Benefits
Provides continuing health and dental coverage for you and your family during retirement.
TripleGuard™
Combines protection for your contents, income and expenses and risk of a lawsuit. Insures against fire, theft, and liability suits arising from slip and fall claims. Protection offered in one convenient, cost-effective package.
Building
Protects dentists who own the building they practice in. Available for a competitive additional premium.
Office Overhead Expense
Reimburses certain office expenses you incur if illness or injury prevent you from working. Helps cover the ongoing expenses of your practice in the event of a disability.
Dental Office Staff
Offers your dental-practice employees protection for three types of coverage—life, accident and disability insurance. Coverage types can be purchased together or separately.
Malpractice
Protects you in the event a patient makes a claim against you arising out of your professional services.
Ontario Excess Malpractice
Provides protection in excess of your mandatory primary policy in the event a patient makes a claim against you that arises from your professional services. Available to Ontario Dental Association members who are licensed to practise in Ontario.
Professional Legal Expenses Plan
Covers legal expenses related to an insurance company audit, a professional disciplinary or complaint hearing, and investigations concerning licensing or fitness to practise.
Travel Edge/Travel Edge Plus
Provides you with emergency medical coverage anywhere in the world outside your home province and includes a broad range of coverage. Available through one low premium that covers you for an entire year.
CDSPI Home & Auto
Offers a variety of advantages including 24/7 claims assistance and multi-line discounts. Provides preferred group rates for dental professionals, their spouses, staff, and dependents.
Personal Umbrella Liability
Provides extra coverage above your existing home, auto, boat, or vacation property in Canada—in the event of large lawsuits from third parties.
Undergraduate Package (under 40)*
Provides eligible undergraduate students with no-cost disability, life, accident and dental hand instruments protection while in dental school, as well as doubled amounts of life, disability insurance and AD&D coverage at graduation.
Optional Graduate Package*
With evidence of good health, you can apply for the Optional Graduate Package to receive even higher amounts of life, disability insurance and AD&D coverage at graduation.
TripleGuard™ Insurance*
As a student, dental hand instruments coverage is included in the undergraduate student insurance program* at no cost. Once you graduate, you have access to associate or regular office coverage at reduced rates if you are a graduate who participated in the undergraduate student insurance program.
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