
Ensure life goes on, with Life Insurance.
Think of life insurance like a safety net that helps protect your family financially when you’re no longer here. It pays out if you pass away while covered by the policy or are diagnosed with a terminal illness and your life expectancy is less than 12 months. The payout from a life insurance policy can help your loved ones manage outstanding debts such as the mortgage and keep up with the monthly bills and childcare costs.
Benefits of our life insurance
Quick and easy cover
Get a free life insurance quote online in 2 minutes and be covered in just 20.
We're there when you need us
In 2025 we paid out over £527 million in life claims, that's an average of £1.4million every single day. Helping almost 14,000 people and their families.
Fixed monthly costs
Cover starts from just £5 a month and will never go up, unless you make changes to your policy. Tell us about the cover you want for a personalised quote.

How our cashback process works
- Apply through TopCashback. Click through from TopCashback, get a quote and take out a new life insurance policy online.
- Pay 6 monthly premiums. Keep your policy active and make six consecutive monthly payments.
- Receive your cashback. After your sixth payment, your cashback will be confirmed and paid into your TopCashback account within the stated timeframe.
What's covered
Things you need to know
Policy documents
See a full list of what is and isn't covered in our policy documents before you apply. If you are an existing customer please refer to your policy documents for details of your cover.
How to get a life insurance quote
It takes around 2 minutes to get your personalised life insurance quote. You'll need the following details:
- Your personal details - date of birth, contact details and smoker status
- Details of the cover you need - what type of life insurance and how much do you need, how long you want cover to last.
- Who do you want to cover - is the life insurance policy for you alone or you and another person.
Alternatively you can call our UK team on:
0808 189 8956
8:30am to 8pm Monday to Friday
9am to 1pm Saturday
We may record and monitor calls.
Why get life insurance with L&G?
We've been protecting families like yours for 190 years. You can trust us to provide expert cover and supporting benefits.
Defaqto 5 Star Rated
5 Star Defaqto rated cover - the highest rating possible!
There when you need us
In 2025 we paid out over £527 million in life claims, that's an average of £1.4 million every single day. Helping almost 14,000 people and their families.
Wellbeing Support
We've partnered with RedArc Assured Limited to bring you our Wellbeing Support service, offering phone-based services to support your mental health and wellbeing.
Care Concierge
Free access to our team of Care Experts, offering confidential and impartial telephone guidance. This can help you or loved ones understand and find adult and later life care. Find out more.
Our Life Insurance product reviews
As of 21 April 2026, 1,561 customers have rated our life insurance giving the product an average star rating of 4.4 out of 5 on Trustpilot. The score of 4.4 corresponds to the star label ‘Excellent’. It includes reviews from customers who’ve claimed on a policy.
Cashback Terms and Conditions
- This offer is only available to customers who take out a Legal & General Life Insurance or Decreasing Life Insurance policy, with or without Critical Illness Cover online via TopCashback.
- You will be eligible for your cashback six months after your policy start date, provided you haven't cancelled your policy and your payments are fully up to date. Please allow up to eight weeks following this for your Cashback to be processed and paid into your TopCashback account.
- If you purchase a Legal & General Life Insurance or Decreasing Life Insurance, with or without Critical Illness Cover via a Cashback website, you will not be eligible for any other Legal & General Life Cover offer.
- If you have previously held and cancelled a Legal & General Life Insurance or Decreasing Life Insurance policy, with or without Critical Illness Cover within the last 18 months, you will not be eligible for this offer.
- Legal & General reserves the right to cancel your Legal & General Life Insurance or Decreasing Life Insurance policy or your eligibility for cashback should we discover or have a reasonable suspicion that the terms and conditions of this offer are being abused.
- This offer is limited to one cashback reward per policy sold.
- This offer cannot be used in conjunction with any other discount or offers