At Blue Cross Life®, customer satisfaction is important, and it is our commitment to respond to complaints promptly, accurately and respectfully. We strive to provide a transparent approach to address concerns and complaints and will employ our best efforts to respond and resolve where possible. All complaints and personal information collected, whether written or oral, will be handled in a timely, professional and confidential manner. We want to make sure that concerns about our products, services, or representatives are handled fairly and efficiently.
Step 1: Let us know
First, please discuss your concern with us. Many issues can be resolved by simply speaking with a customer service representative.
If your complaint involves a suspected privacy breach, please contact our Chief Privacy Officer.
- Chief Privacy Officer
Blue Cross Life
644 Main Street
PO Box 220
Moncton, New Brunswick, E1C 8L3
Email: privacy@bluecrosslife.ca
Step 2: Speak with a manager or supervisor
If your concern isn’t resolved to your satisfaction, please request for a manager or supervisor to review your file.
Step 3: File a formal complaint
If you remain dissatisfied with the response, you can file a written complaint with Blue Cross Life’s Complaint Officer. Please include details of how your concern was dealt with in steps 1 and 2 and why you disagree with the outcome.
What you can expect:
Upon receipt of an escalated written complaint, your concerns will be acknowledged in writing by the Blue Cross Life Complaint Officer and an investigation into your concerns will begin.
The Complaint Investigation:
During our investigation we may:
- Contact you to clarify information you have already provided
- Contact you to request additional information in writing
- Share your complaint and supporting documentation with relevant internal parties related to the initial concern and subsequent interactions
- Request additional information from other parties involved
- Provide you with updates throughout the complaint handling process
- Advise you of our decision and any action we will be taking
Our response to you:
Once the investigation has been completed, you will receive a written response explaining the reasons for the decision. This is called a Final Position Letter.
Step 4: Still not satisfied?
If you continue to remain dissatisfied after following our complaint resolution process and wish to pursue your complaint, external recourse is available to you through various consumer organizations:
- The OmbudService for Life & Health Insurance (OLHI) offers a free, fast, independent & impartial dispute resolution service for Canadians. OLHI deals with concerns about life and health insurance products and services that have not been resolved through the company’s dispute resolution process. OLHI may take on your case if, after receiving our final response, you would like to pursue the matter further, or if you have not received our final response in 90 days.
OmbudService for Life & Health Insurance
2 Bloor Street West, Suite 700
Toronto, Ontario, M4W 3E2
Toll-free Canada: +1 (888) 295-8112
Toll-free Québec: +1 (866) 582-2088
Website: www.olhi.ca
- In Québec, the regulation of life insurance companies is administered by the Autorité des marchés Financiers (AMF). If you remain dissatisfied with how your complaint has been handled or with the results of the process, you may ask that your file be transferred to the AMF. Following the transfer, the AMF will examine the file and, if deemed appropriate, may offer dispute resolution services.
Autorité des marchés Financiers
Place de la Cité, tour PwC
2640, boulevard Laurier, bureau 400
Québec (Québec) G1V 5C1
+1 (418) 525-0337
800, rue du Square-Victoria
Bureau 2200
Montréal (Québec) H3C 0B4
+1 (514) 395-0337
Toll-free: +1 (877) 525-0337
Website: www.lautorite.qc.ca
Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC)
The Financial Consumer Agency of Canada supervises all federally regulated financial institutions, which includes federally regulated insurance companies, for compliance with federal consumer protection laws, including the requirements to have a complaint-handling process in place.
The FCAC does not resolve individual complaints. If you have a problem with a financial product or service, you may file a complaint with Blue Cross Life Insurance Company of Canada. If you are not satisfied with how your complaint has been handled, you can escalate the complaint to the following third-party complaints bodies: The OmbudService for Life & Health Insurance (OLHI) or in Quebec, the Autorité des marchés Financiers (AMF).
If you want to know your rights or need information about Blue Cross Life’s complaint-handling process, you may contact the FCAC by online form, mail, or telephone. The FCAC uses information from consumer enquires to support its mandate.
Financial Consumer Agency of Canada
427 Laurier Avenue West, 5th floor
Ottawa, Ontario, K1R 1B9
Website: www.fcac-acfc.gc.ca
For services in English: +1 (866) 461-FCAC (3222)
For services in French: +1 (866) 461-ACFC (2232)
For calls from outside of Canada: 613-960-4666
Teletypewriter (TTY): +1 (866) 914-6097 / 613-947-7771
Video Relay Service: FCAC welcomes Video Relay Services (VRS) calls. You do not need to authorize the relay service operator to communicate with the FCAC.