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Business Solutions · Incorporated Professionals and SMBs

You insured the business.
Who insures the person
the business depends on?

Life insurance strategies for incorporated professionals and small business owners. Corporate coverage, key person protection, and overhead insurance that keeps the business alive when the unexpected happens to the people running it.

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Of Canadian small businesses have no succession or key person plan
3 Solutions
Corporate, key person, and overhead coverage
Tax-Advantaged
Corporate life insurance grows inside the business, sheltered from tax
The Gap Most Business Owners Miss

Your personal insurance protects your family.
These solutions protect the business itself.

Most business owners have some personal life insurance. What they rarely have is coverage structured around the business: what happens to operations if the owner dies, what happens to revenue if a key employee is gone, and whether the corporation is using life insurance to build wealth tax-efficiently.

These are not personal insurance questions. They are business planning questions. The answers live at the intersection of insurance and corporate strategy, and they are often worth significantly more than the premiums paid.

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What most business partners have in a buy-sell agreement funded by insurance. When one partner dies, the surviving partner often has no legal mechanism to buy out the estate at a pre-agreed price.
6 months
How long most small businesses can survive the loss of their key revenue driver without a financial plan in place. Fixed overhead keeps running the day after a key person is gone.
Capital Dividend Account
A tax-free mechanism available to Canadian private corporations when a life insurance policy pays out. Most incorporated business owners have never been told this exists.
Three Business Solutions

Each solution addresses a different risk to your business.

Most incorporated business owners and small business operators need at least one of these. Many need all three. The right combination depends on your business structure, your partners, and your goals.

01
Corporate Insurance
Incorporated professionals and business owners
Life insurance owned and paid for by the corporation. The premium comes from pre-tax corporate dollars rather than after-tax personal income, which makes it significantly more cost-effective for incorporated individuals. The death benefit flows through the Capital Dividend Account, allowing most of the proceeds to reach the estate tax-free.
"My accountant said I should have a corporate policy. I finally understand why."
  • Premiums paid with more cost-effective corporate dollars
  • Death benefit flows through CDA, largely tax-free to estate
  • Cash value grows inside the corporation, tax-sheltered
  • Can fund buy-sell agreements between business partners
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02
Key Person Insurance
Businesses that depend on specific individuals
Life and disability coverage on the person or people whose loss would most severely damage the business financially. The business owns the policy, pays the premiums, and receives the benefit. The payout covers the cost of finding and training a replacement, revenue lost during the transition, and debt repayment obligations that relied on that person's contribution.
"If I lost my lead salesperson tomorrow, the business would be in serious trouble for months."
  • Business receives the payout, not the individual's family
  • Covers both death and disability of the key person
  • Can cover founders, key sales staff, or specialist employees
  • Lenders often require key person coverage as a loan condition
Learn more about Key Person Insurance
03
Business Overhead Insurance
Self-employed and solo practice owners
Disability coverage that pays the fixed operating expenses of your business if you cannot work. Personal disability insurance replaces your income. Business overhead insurance pays the rent, the payroll, the equipment leases, and the professional fees that keep the practice or business alive while you recover. Without it, a six-month disability can permanently close a business that would otherwise have survived.
"I have personal disability coverage. I did not realize my business overhead was a completely separate exposure."
  • Pays actual business overhead expenses, dollar for dollar
  • Keeps rent, payroll, and leases current during disability
  • Premiums are tax-deductible as a business expense
  • Preserves the business so it can be returned to or sold
Learn more about Business Overhead Insurance
Who These Solutions Are For

If you earn through a corporation
or run the business yourself,
you carry these risks.

Business solutions insurance is not for large corporations with full HR departments and succession planning teams. It is for the incorporated dentist, the consulting firm with two partners, the physiotherapy clinic owner, the contractor who is the business, and the small business with two or three people whose departure would significantly harm operations.

Incorporated professionals such as dentists, lawyers, physicians, engineers, and consultants who pay premiums through the corporation
Business partners who need a funded buy-sell agreement so either partner's death or disability does not create a legal and financial dispute at the worst possible moment
Business owners with key employees whose revenue contribution, client relationships, or specialized knowledge the business could not quickly replace
Self-employed sole practitioners who are both the owner and the only revenue-generating employee, making personal disability and business overhead coverage a single interconnected risk
Business owners with commercial loans or lines of credit that require key person coverage as a condition of the lending agreement
What a business planning conversation covers
Your corporate structure and how premiums are most cost-effectively structured through the business
Whether you have a buy-sell agreement in place and whether it is funded with insurance
Which individuals in your business represent the highest concentration of risk if they were no longer able to contribute
Your monthly overhead costs and how long the business could operate if you were unable to work
The Capital Dividend Account and how corporate life insurance death benefits can flow to your estate with minimal tax
How business solutions insurance fits alongside your personal coverage and any existing corporate retained earnings strategy
How It Works

From first conversation to
the right structure in place.

1
Business Review
We look at your corporate structure, your partners, your key people, your overhead, and your goals. I work alongside your accountant or lawyer when the strategy involves corporate tax planning.
2
Identify the Risks
Which risks are covered, which are exposed, and which are the highest priority? Most business owners have at least one significant gap they did not know existed until we go through this together.
3
Design the Solution
I design the coverage structure, ownership arrangement, beneficiary designations, and premium payment approach that fits your specific business and corporate situation. Every detail matters here.
4
Application and Review
I manage the application and underwriting process, keep you informed at each stage, and review the policy with you on delivery to confirm every detail is correct before you sign.
Mukosolu Blessing Ezeife, Licensed Life Insurance Agent
Your Advisor
Mukosolu Blessing Ezeife
Licensed Life Insurance Agent · Canada-wide

Business solutions insurance sits at the intersection of life insurance, corporate tax strategy, and business succession planning. I work closely with my clients' accountants and lawyers to make sure the coverage structure actually fits the corporate plan, not just the insurance box.

I serve incorporated professionals and small business owners across Ontario, Alberta, and beyond. If you have been told you should look at corporate insurance and are not sure where to start, or if you have partners and no funded buy-sell agreement in place, let's have that conversation.

FSRA Licensed · Ontario AIC Licensed · Alberta Greatway Financial MGA Canada-wide Service

The business is worth protecting. So are the people who built it.

Free consultation. No obligation. We review your business structure and I tell you exactly what coverage makes sense and why.

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General information only. Corporate insurance strategies should be reviewed with a qualified tax advisor or accountant. All coverage is subject to underwriting approval and product availability by province. Mukosolu Blessing Ezeife, Licensed Life Insurance Agent, operating under Greatway Financial.