About Us

Paul Tompkins, B.Comm., LL.B., CLU, TEP, President of Tompkins Insurance Services Ltd., along with his staff and strategic partners, specializes in advising and implementing life insurance based solutions for high net worth individuals and families as part of their overall estate planning process.

For the past twenty years, Paul has built a solid foundation of reputable clients, including several of Canada's ultra high net worth families and many highly regarded executives.  As a completely independent insurance broker, Paul and his team can provide quotations from any insurance company, along with analysis and advice.

Paul received his Bachelor of Commerce from the University of British Columbia and his Bachelor of Law from Queen's University.  He practiced tax and corporate law in Vancouver and moved to Toronto in 1987 to form Tompkins Insurance Services Ltd.  He and his team have since become recognized by leading accounting and legal firms across Canada as experts in the use of life insurance in trust and estate planning.  Paul delivers information seminars to these firms on the use of life insurance on an ongoing basis.

Paul is a former contributing editor to "Insurance Planning", a national quarterly publication from Federated Press.  He has also published papers for Federated Press and the Law Society of Upper Canada on split dollar insurance, creative uses of the capital dividend account and funding shareholders agreement.  In 2009, he authored "Estate Planning Strategies and Insurance Funding Solutions", a  detailed guide available to clients, prospective clients and their advisors.

Paul is a long standing member and former chairman of the Conference for Advanced Life Underwriters (CALU), a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) and the Toronto Estate Planning Council. Paul is a current director on the board of Crescent School, an independent school for boys.  He lives in Toronto with his wife and four children.

References are available on request.