
Protect life as they know it.
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
Types of life insurance
Life insurance
Life insurance is where the cover and monthly payment (premium) you choose will stay the same for the length of your policy, unless you make any changes. If you pass away while covered, your family will get a cash sum to help with things like household bills or child care costs, for example.
Decreasing life insurance
Decreasing life insurance means the amount of cover will decrease over time, roughly in line with the way a repayment mortgage decreases. It's usually used to help protect a repayment mortgage. If you pass away while covered, your family would get a cash sum which could be used to help pay the mortgage.
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
Wellbeing Support
Practical and emotional help at no extra cost
You and your immediate family will get access to Wellbeing Support when you take out Life Insurance with us, thanks to our partnership with RedArc Assured Ltd. This connects you with experienced, registered nurses who offer a wide range of phone‑based wellbeing support.
Here’s a few examples of how they could support you:
- Bereavement counselling or therapy
- Physiotherapy after injury
- Help with managing serious or chronic illness
What life insurance covers
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.
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.
Our Life Insurance product reviews
As of 15 May 2026, 1,601 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
