Independent Insurance Broker · Richmond Hill, ON

Protecting what you value most

With over 30 years of experience, we provide personalized insurance advice and access to Canada's leading insurers, helping you find coverage that's tailored to your needs.

  • 30+ years experience
  • Independent broker capacity
  • Manulife · Canada Life · Sun Life

Our role

Personalized advice. Trusted coverage.

With over 30 years of experience in the life insurance and employee group benefits industry, GCA Insurance Solutions was launched as a uniquely customized, personal and professional approach to insurance risk and insurance solutions.

As your Insurance Advisor, we function in a Broker Capacity in tandem with many of the top life insurance companies in Canada and the world, including Manulife, Canada Life and Sun Life, giving you the best available choices and the confidence that comes with being aligned with an ‘A’ list insurer.

Through personal consultations and an adept fact-finding process, we make sure you fully understand the solutions recommended, so the coverage you choose actually mitigates the risks that matter to you.

30+
Years in insurance & group benefits
2014
GCA Insurance Solutions founded

What we cover

Insurance solutions for people and businesses

Four core areas of coverage, each tailored to your specific needs, whether you’re protecting a family, personal or business debt, or growing a team.

Employee Group Benefits

Group benefits programs for small to mid-sized companies, tailored to your team’s demographics, claims history and drug utilization, through carriers like Manulife, Canada Life and Sun Life.

  • Group Life & AD&D
  • Short & Long Term Disability
  • Critical Illness
  • Health & Dental Care
  • Travel Insurance
  • Prescription Drugs
Request a group quote

Life Insurance

A wide range of life insurance products, each suited to a specific need, from mortgage protection to estate planning.

  • Universal Life
  • Term Life
  • Participating Life
  • Whole Life
  • 10/15/20-Year Pay Plans
What life insurance can protect
  • Mortgage insurance protection
  • Family protection
  • Start-up life plans for children
  • Personal or business debt protection
  • Funeral costs
  • Estate & probate costs
  • Buy/sell agreements
  • Key man insurance
  • Corporate life insurance
  • Insurance retirement plans
  • Capital gains
  • Estate preservation / equalization

Determining the ‘right’ plan is arrived at through careful consultation, a fact-finding process, and your personal or business budget.

Disability Insurance

Also known as Income Replacement coverage, it protects your annual income if an injury or sickness keeps you from working. Benefits can pay out as quickly as 30–90 days after a disability occurs.

  • Up to 70% income replacement
  • Non-Cancellable plans
  • 30/60/90-day waiting periods
  • Benefits to age 65
Plans, features & what’s covered

Plans & features:

  • Non-Cancellable & Guaranteed Renewable Plans
  • Conditional Renewable Plans
  • Benefit periods of 2, 5 & 10 years, or to age 65
  • Any Occupation, Regular Occupation or Own Occupation plans
  • Waiting periods of 30, 60 & 90 days or more

Can help cover:

  • Mortgage payments
  • Household expenses
  • Income replacement
  • Line of credit payments
  • Buy/sell agreements
  • Key man insurance
  • Corporate disability insurance for executives

Critical Illness Insurance

A tax-free lump sum payment after 30 days following a diagnosis of cancer, heart attack, stroke or one of 21 other life-altering illnesses, designed by world-renowned heart surgeon Dr. Marius Barnard, to ease the financial stress of recovery.

  • Tax-free lump sum
  • 24 covered conditions
  • Terms to age 65, 75 or 100
See all 24 covered conditions
  • Cancer
  • Heart Attack
  • Stroke
  • Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
  • Alzheimer’s Disease
  • Aortic Surgery
  • Benign Brain Tumor
  • Blindness
  • Coma
  • Deafness
  • Heart Valve Replacement
  • Kidney Failure
  • Loss of Limbs
  • Loss of Speech *(180 Days)
  • Major Organ Transplant
  • Major Organ Failure (Waiting List)
  • Motor Neuron Disease (ALS)
  • Multiple Sclerosis
  • Occupational HIV Infection
  • Paralysis *(90 Days)
  • Parkinson’s Disease
  • Severe Burns
  • Aplastic Anaemia
  • Bacterial Meningitis
Plans, features & what’s covered

Plans & features:

  • Term plans for 10 or 20 years, or to age 65
  • Level & permanent plans to age 75 or 100
  • 3 to 26 covered illnesses or conditions
  • Optional return of premium on death or maturity

Can help cover:

  • Mortgage payments
  • Household expenses
  • Temporary or short-term income replacement
  • Line of credit payments
  • Medical expenses
  • Home modifications for wheelchair access

Our story

GCA Insurance Solutions - The GCA Difference

Founder Gregory C. Anast began his career in 1993 with Manulife Financial as a Life Insurance Agent, working with a Manulife Career Agency in downtown Toronto’s financial district that secured the top spot in sales production that year in North America.

For the next 10 years, he was part of a successful team at a large Toronto independent national brokerage firm, with a special interest in the group insurance market for professional associations across Ontario and Canada. The decade that followed was served at his family’s multi-line insurance brokerage in the GTA, established in 1967 by his late father.

“I wanted to leave my own distinct mark on the industry. I had a keen sense of what clients wanted and needed in an era of mass consumerism where client’s individual needs are often overlooked or disregarded. I felt that I could make a difference in that regard.”

Gregory C. Anast, Founder

It was with great enthusiasm and a genuine sense of purpose that GCA Insurance Solutions was created and launched in early 2014.

“I trust that we can offer our clients the integrity, transparency and professionalism that they deserve, working with them to provide sound insurance solutions that will be of great value and benefit to them.”

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